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The running time is about the same, but your solution uses a lot more memory, as it makes a list of all possible expressions to test before making the first test, while my solution tests each expressions right after it is constructed. My solution has a lot less pagefaults.
Ah, someday soon, glob will be an iterator in scalar context.

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Re^4: Happy 2006
by ysth (Canon) on Jan 17, 2006 at 06:17 UTC
    It is, but that doesn't help here.
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      s/iterator/lazy iterator/;

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Re^4: Happy 2006
by Perl Mouse (Chaplain) on Jan 18, 2006 at 10:05 UTC
    As pointed out, glob is an iterator in scalar context. However, for provides list context.
    Perl --((8:>*
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