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Here's a benchmark with Perl 5.010. Note that 5.010 has a new /p flag that supplies a ${^MATCH} variable that acts like $& but for only one instance of the match or substitution oper...
Is the cluster set up correctly? The best way to answer this
question is empirically: run some jobs and confirm that you get the
expected results. Benchmarks make good tests, as you also...
If you want to benchmark changes that you are making to verify that
they are in fact making a difference in performance, use ab (Apache bench), which
you will find in the bin
...