#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use utf8; use 5.010000; use autodie; use HTML::Escape; use HTML::Entities; use Benchmark ':all'; my $txt = "<=> (^^)" x 10000; cmpthese( -1, { "HTML::Escape" => sub { escape_html($txt); }, "HTML::Entities" => sub { encode_entities($txt); }, }, );