I'm not surprised that glob and <> down differ much, since they are essentially the same... bigger savings can be achieved by using -M instead of (stat)[9], because doing so eliminates the overhead of making a list just to get its 10^th element.

--shmem

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}