First generate 5,000 random numbers between 1 .. 5_000_000

$ cat gen_targets.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $file = $ARGV[0] || 'targets.txt';
open (OUTPUT, '>', $file) or die "Unable to open $file for writing : $
+!";
print OUTPUT int rand 5_000_000, "\n" for 1 .. 5_000;
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Next, I just modified our 2 scripts as follows:

my $file = $ARGV[0] || 'targets.txt';
open (INPUT, '<', $file) or die "Unable to open $file for reading : $!
+";

while ( <INPUT> ) {
    chomp;
    get_three( $_ );  # used your sub/calling convention
}
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And finally, the results:

$ time ./lr.pl

real    1m0.706s
user    1m0.416s
sys     0m0.080s

$ time ./fu.pl

real    1m0.791s
user    1m0.326s
sys     0m0.220s
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