use Benchmark qw(timethese); use strict; use warnings; my @array = (1 .. 100000); timethese(100, {granfather => \&grandfather, usual => \&usual}); sub grandfather { return 1 if grep {$_ == 100000} @array; } sub usual { for my $a (@array) { return 1 if ($a == 100000); } return 0; }