Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.

Perl is designed to give you several ways to do anything, so consider picking the most readable one.

Must be a different Larry Wall. There are at least 137 of us in the U.S.

A journey of a thousand miles continues with the second step.

Well, coffee is my drug of choice, generally, with a little bit of Pepsi here and there, if I need more sugar. But yeah, if I could do intravenous coffee, I would. But I guess that's pretty standard.