in reply to Re^2: Emptying (and refilling) an array.
in thread Emptying (and refilling) an array.

If you want to benchmark explicitely clearing of the array, you should do that - and not start with a "new" array (although, behind the scenes, the array isn't quite new) each time. Move the declaration of the array outside of the loops. Something like:
our @working; cmpthese -20, { one => '@working = (); $working[$_] = $_ foreach 0 .. 100', ... };
Of course, if you're going to fill in all the elements anyway, why bother clearing them?