I prefer not to compare apples and oranges:

use Benchmark qw[ cmpthese ];
use List::Util qw[ first ];

our @array = 1 .. 100_000;

cmpthese( -1, {
    func_10th => sub {
        first { length > 3 } @array;
    },
    iter_10th => sub {
        for ( @array ) {
            return $_ if length > 3;
        }
    },
});

cmpthese( -1, {
    func_last => sub {
        first { length > 5 } @array;
    },
    iter_last => sub {
        for ( @array ) {
            return $_ if length > 5;
        }
    },
});
__END__
            Rate func_10th iter_10th
func_10th  718/s        --      -77%
iter_10th 3139/s      337%        --
            Rate iter_last func_last
iter_last 29.4/s        --      -29%
func_last 41.1/s       40%        --

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The results are similar if I run your code though.

Over here, first always wins given a sufficiently large number of iterations.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^15: Specializing Functions with Currying by Aristotle
in thread Specializing Functions with Currying by FoxtrotUniform

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