use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark q{cmpthese}; my @arr = ( q{a} .. q{z} ) x 1000; cmpthese( -10, { useGrep => sub { my %seen; return grep { ! $seen{$_} ++ } @arr; }, useSlice => sub { my %seen; @seen{@arr} = (); return keys %seen; }, });