bench on linode vps

Linux li68-156 2.6.39.1-linode34 #1 SMP Tue Jun 21 10:29:24 EDT 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi
(with 53 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

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custom implementation
                0.250437021255493
List::MoreUtils::part
                0.127769947052002

real    0m5.596s
user    0m5.390s
sys     0m0.202s