Thank you both for your wisdom.

I read the my and state docs before asking but I couldn't find an answer.

I understand that state was introduced as an improvement to my and that they have different purposes although they are overlapping in some cases and can be used to reach the same effect.

My question was basically conceptual.

Anyway, just if somebody is interested, it seems that there is, of course, a difference:

my $n; for (1..100000000) { $n=0 }

real    0m9.395s
user    0m9.397s
sys     0m0.000s
_________________________________


for (1..100000000) { my $n=0 }

real    0m12.773s
user    0m12.765s
sys     0m0.004s
_________________________________


for (1..100000000) { state $n=0 }

real    0m7.282s
user    0m7.244s
sys     0m0.008s

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