#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Text::Wrap qw(wrap); use Benchmark qw(cmpthese); my @words = qw( EMBOSOM EMBOWED EMBOWEL EMBOWER EMBRACE EMBROIL EMBROWN EMBRUED EMBRUES EMBRUTE EMBRYON EMBRYOS EMENDED EMENDER EMERALD EMERGED EMERGES EMERIES EMERITA EMERITI EMERODS EMEROID EMERSED EMETICS EMETINE EMETINS EMEUTES EMIGRES EMINENT EMIRATE EMITTED EMITTER EMODINS EMOTERS EMOTING EMOTION EMOTIVE EMPALED EMPALER EMPALES EMPANEL EXFOLIATIONS EXHAUSTIVELY EXHAUSTIVITY EXHIBITIONER EXHILARATING EXHILARATION EXHILARATIVE EXHORTATIONS EXIGUOUSNESS EXOBIOLOGIES EXOBIOLOGIST EXONERATIONS EXONUCLEASES EXOPEPTIDASE EXOPHTHALMIC ); my $test={ st => sub { my @sorted = map { $_->[1] } sort { $a->[0] <=> $b->[0] || $a->[1] cmp $b->[1] } map { [ tr/eE/eE/, $_ ] } @words; }, grt => sub { my @sorted = map { substr($_, 4) } sort map { pack("LA*", tr/eE/eE/, $_) } @words; }, bare => sub { my @sorted = sort { ($a =~ tr/eE/eE/) <=> ($b =~ tr/eE/eE/) || $a cmp $b } @words; } }; foreach my $t (keys %$test) { print "Test '$t'\n",wrap("\t","\t",join(", ",$test->{$t}->())),"\n"; } @words=map { ( $_ x 100 ) x 100 } @words; cmpthese(-3,$test);