use 5.010; use strict; use Carp qw/croak/; use Time::HiRes qw/time/; sub isPrime1 (_) { my $num = shift; return if $num == 1; # 1 is not prime croak "usage: isPrime(NATURAL NUMBER)" unless $num =~ /^[1-9][0-9]*$/; for my $div (2 .. sqrt $num) { return if $num % $div == 0; } return 1; } sub isPrime2 { my $toTest = shift; my $sqrtLimit = sqrt $toTest; my $sieve = q{}; vec( $sieve, 0 , 1 ) = 1; vec( $sieve, 1 , 1 ) = 1; vec( $sieve, $toTest, 1 ) = 0; my $marker = 1; while ( $marker < $sqrtLimit ) { my $possPrime = $marker + 1; $possPrime ++ while vec( $sieve, $possPrime, 1 ); my $fill = 2 * $possPrime; while ( $fill <= $toTest ) { vec( $sieve, $fill, 1 ) = 1; $fill += $possPrime; } last if vec( $sieve, $toTest, 1 ); $marker = $possPrime; } return not vec($sieve, $toTest, 1); } say q[ NUMBER : TOBYINK JOHNGG ]; say q[ NUMBER : RESULT TIME RESULT TIME ]; for my $num (qw(75 169 229 367 369 8794 9227 10807 11939 14803 19937 19938 39783 47083 199933)) { printf('%8d : ', $num); timeit($num, $_) for \&isPrime1, \&isPrime2; print "\n"; } sub timeit { my ($n, $f) = @_; my $start = time(); print($f->($n) ? "YES " : "NO "); my $end = time(); printf '%.06f ', ($end - $start); }