BEGIN {
    print time . "\n";
}
use List::MoreUtils qw/any/;
BEGIN {
    print time . "\n";
}
print time . "\n";
my @a = any {$_== 92} 1..100000000;
print "\n";
print time;
print "\n";
print @a;

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The output is: 
1325041203
1325041203
1325041218

1325041218
1

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What is taking the 15 seconds here?

I guessed it was caused by initializing the array 1..100000000 ,and I tested it in C ,it's really less than 1 second: 

    int *array = malloc(100000000 * sizeof(int));
    int i;
    for(i = 0; i < 100000000; i++){
        array[i] = i + 1;
    }

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Please pay close attention to the output given above(or you can try it yourself), seems no one has noticed the output ...

I printed the time before and after the iteration, the result is both 1325041218: 


print time . "\n"; 
my @a = any {$_== 92} 1..100000000; print "\n"; 
print time;

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So the time is not taken by the iteration..

In reply to Why it takes so much time here? by PerlOnTheWay

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