use strict; use warnings; use 5.014; use List::Util qw{ max }; use Time::HiRes qw{ gettimeofday tv_interval }; my $t0 = [ gettimeofday() ]; srand 1234567; my $vec = q{}; vec( $vec, 536_870_911, 1 ) = 0; vec( $vec, int rand 536_870_911, 1 ) = 1 for 1 .. 1e7; my $t1 = [ gettimeofday() ]; say qq{Creating vector - @{ [ tv_interval( $t0, $t1 ) ] }}; my $bitStr = unpack q{b*}, $vec; my $t2 = [ gettimeofday() ]; say qq{Unpacking bitstring - @{ [ tv_interval( $t1, $t2 ) ] }}; say qq{Longest contiguous block of zeros is }, max map length, $bitStr =~ m{(0+)}g, q{ bits long}; my $t3 = [ gettimeofday() ]; say qq{Finding longest block - @{ [ tv_interval( $t2, $t3 ) ] }}; for my $numZeros ( 25, 78, 307, 599, 943 ) { my $ts = [ gettimeofday() ]; say qq{At least $numZeros contiguous 0s }, $bitStr =~ m{(0{$numZeros,})} ? qq{found at offset $-[ 0 ], length @{ [ length $1 ] }} : q{could not be found}; say qq{ Search took - @{ [ tv_interval( $ts, [ gettimeofday() ] ) ] }}; }