$ perl foo 1000000 time = 0.400; secs per 1M keys: 0.400 $ perl foo 2000000 time = 0.845; secs per 1M keys: 0.423 $ perl foo 4000000 time = 1.752; secs per 1M keys: 0.438 $ perl foo 8000000 time = 3.792; secs per 1M keys: 0.474 $ perl foo 16000000 time = 9.213; secs per 1M keys: 0.576