Here is a quote from the official Perl documentation (For Loops):

And it's faster because Perl executes a foreach statement more rapidly than it would the equivalent for loop.

I believe the "for" in the docs refers to a C-style loop (for($i=0;$i<10;$i++)) and the "foreach" refers to the more Perlish style (for $i (1..10)).

To prove that it is faster for you, you would have to benchmark it, as someone else already explained to you in another forum. It is considered good etiquette to mention that you already asked this question elsewhere.