#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark qw(:all); use List::Search qw( list_contains ); use Perl6::Slurp; use List::Util qw( shuffle ); my $dict_file = '/usr/share/dict/words'; my @array = sort slurp $dict_file; my %hash = map { $_ => 1 } @array; my @words = shuffle @array; cmpthese( -3, { 'hash' => sub { exists $hash{$_} for @words; }, 'list_contains' => sub { list_contains( $_, \@array ) for @words; }, } );