use warnings; use strict; use Benchmark qw/cmpthese/; my $size = 1e3; my @numbers = ( 0..$size ); my $index = 3; my @expect = ( 0..2,4..$size ); use constant TEST => 0; cmpthese(-2, { splice => sub { my @output = @numbers; splice @output, $index, 1; join("\0", sort @output) eq join("\0", sort @expect) or die if TEST; }, grep => sub { # https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=11123877 my @output = @numbers[ grep $_ != $index, 0 .. $#numbers ]; join("\0", sort @output) eq join("\0", sort @expect) or die if TEST; }, swap => sub { my @output = @numbers; $output[$index] = pop @output; join("\0", sort @output) eq join("\0", sort @expect) or die if TEST; }, }); #### C:\Projets\perl>perl pm_select_11123879.pm Rate grep swap splice grep 14287/s -- -73% -73% swap 52519/s 268% -- -0% splice 52549/s 268% 0% --