+=head1 BENCHMARKS
+
+The following timings were obtained by running the C<samples/bench.pl> script with perl 5.8.8 on a Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz machine. The C<_pp> entries are the pure Perl versions, while C<_bv> are L<Bit::Vector> versions.
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Filling bits at a given position :
+
+ Rate vfill_pp vfill_bv vfill
+ vfill_pp 80.3/s -- -100% -100%
+ vfill_bv 1053399/s 1312401% -- -11%
+ vfill 1180792/s 1471129% 12% --
+
+=item Copying bits from a bit vector to a different one :
+
+ Rate vcopy_pp vcopy_bv vcopy
+ vcopy_pp 112/s -- -100% -100%
+ vcopy_bv 62599/s 55622% -- -89%
+ vcopy 558491/s 497036% 792% --
+
+=item Moving bits in the same bit vector from a given position to a different one :
+
+ Rate vmove_pp vmove_bv vmove
+ vmove_pp 64.8/s -- -100% -100%
+ vmove_bv 64742/s 99751% -- -88%
+ vmove 547980/s 845043% 746% --
+
+=item Testing bit equality from different positions of different bit vectors :
+
+ Rate veq_pp veq_bv veq
+ veq_pp 92.7/s -- -100% -100%
+ veq_bv 32777/s 35241% -- -94%
+ veq 505828/s 545300% 1443% --
+
+=back
+