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          Rate   ref alias
alias 141243/s   58%    --
ref    89366/s    --  -37%

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         Rate   ref alias
alias 45496/s   19%    --
ref   38388/s    --  -16%

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         Rate   ref alias
alias 25947/s   12%    --
ref   23186/s    --  -11%

##</code><code>##

This is perl, v5.8.4 built for sun4-solaris-64int
(with 27 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

##</code><code>##

Length of string: 1000
          Rate   ref alias
alias 404858/s  115%    --
ref   187970/s    --  -54%

Length of string: 2000
          Rate   ref alias
alias 367647/s   87%    --
ref   196850/s    --  -46%

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          Rate   ref alias
alias 220751/s   24%    --
ref   177936/s    --  -19%

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          Rate   ref alias
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ref   165563/s    --   -1%

Length of string: 19000
          Rate alias   ref
ref   162866/s    1%    --
alias 161551/s    --   -1%

Length of string: 20000
          Rate alias   ref
ref   162602/s    2%    --
alias 160000/s    --   -2%

##</code><code>##

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for IA64.ARCHREV_0-thread-multi
(with 33 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2006, Larry Wall

Binary build 817.1 [268662] provided by ActiveState http://www.ActiveState.com
Built Sep 19 2006 13:53:03

##</code><code>##

          Rate   ref alias
ref   258065/s    --  -46%
alias 477783/s   85%    --

...

Length of string: 10000
          Rate alias   ref
alias 123533/s    --  -25%
ref   164528/s   33%    --

...

Length of string: 20000
          Rate alias   ref
alias  65509/s    --  -42%
ref   112867/s   72%    --

##</code><code>##

This is perl, v5.10.0 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread

##</code><code>##

Length of string: 1000
          Rate   ref alias
alias 511771/s   53%    --
ref   335121/s    --  -35%

Length of string: 2000
          Rate   ref alias
alias 383289/s   28%    --
ref   299043/s    --  -22%

Length of string: 3000
          Rate   ref alias
alias 318471/s   14%    --
ref   279486/s    --  -12%

Length of string: 4000
          Rate   ref alias
ref   256016/s    --   -2%
alias 262329/s    2%    --

Length of string: 5000
          Rate alias   ref
alias 219154/s    --   -7%
ref   236183/s    8%    --

...

Length of string: 10000
          Rate alias   ref
alias 121448/s    --  -29%
ref   170707/s   41%    --

...

Length of string: 20000
          Rate alias   ref
alias  67801/s    --  -39%
ref   111694/s   65%    --

##</code><code>##

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread