avoiding xargs

Why spawn a copy of perl for each file?

$ find . -maxdepth 1 | xargs perl -le 'print "$$: my args: @ARGV"'
12390: my args: . ./bash ./rbash ./sh ./cat ./chgrp ./chmod ./chown ./
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$ find . -maxdepth 1 -exec perl -le 'print "$$: my args: @ARGV"' {} \;
12399: my args: .
12400: my args: ./bash
12401: my args: ./rbash
12402: my args: ./sh
12403: my args: ./cat
12404: my args: ./chgrp
12405: my args: ./chmod
12406: my args: ./chown
12407: my args: ./cp
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