#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark qw/cmpthese/; sub tye2 { my $x = shift; !( $x & ($x-1) ); } sub tye3 { my ($x) = @_; !( $x & ($x-1) ); } sub tye4 { !( $_[0] & ($_[0] - 1) ); } cmpthese( -5, { tye2 => q!tye2(rand 1000000)!, tye3 => q!tye3(rand 1000000)!, tye4 => q!tye4(rand 1000000)!, } ); __END__ tye2:6wcs (5.30usr + 0.01sys = 5.31CPU) @ 384813.56/s (n=2043360) tye3:6wcs (5.07usr + 0.00sys = 5.07CPU) @ 381046.15/s (n=1931904) tye4:5wcs (5.42usr + 0.00sys = 5.42CPU) @ 493005.17/s (n=2672088) Rate tye3 tye2 tye4 tye3 381046/s -- -1% -23% tye2 384814/s 1% -- -22% tye4 493005/s 29% 28% --