As written:

               Rate casethree   casetwo   caseone  casefour
casethree  890174/s        --       -3%      -26%      -34%
casetwo    919255/s        3%        --      -24%      -32%
caseone   1205935/s       35%       31%        --      -11%
casefour  1357009/s       52%       48%       13%        --

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Moving casefour to the start of the file (as the first declared subroutine):

               Rate casethree   casetwo  casefour   caseone
casethree  836916/s        --       -8%      -31%      -33%
casetwo    908163/s        9%        --      -25%      -28%
casefour  1215803/s       45%       34%        --       -3%
caseone   1255655/s       50%       38%        3%        --

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Moving casetwo to the start of the file:

               Rate casethree   casetwo   caseone  casefour
casethree  870542/s        --       -4%      -27%      -36%
casetwo    908848/s        4%        --      -23%      -33%
caseone   1187190/s       36%       31%        --      -13%
casefour  1362630/s       57%       50%       15%        --

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This is Perl 5.8.8.

In reply to Re: Ways to delete start of string by chromatic
in thread Ways to delete start of string by hsmyers

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