Well, have fun. Just remeber that O-notation comparisons of different algorithms general carry an unstated "all other things being equal" clause.

That is, an O(N) algorithm written in C (like splice), may outform a O(1+a few bits) algorithm written in Perl, if N is fairly small (and 50-1500 is small in this context) and those "few bits" consitute several lines of Perl.