lc is much faster, it seems to me, though both are very fast (each of these tests below is for 1m comparisons, so regexp had 150K/s, and lc 1830K/s).
Benchmark: timing 10 iterations of RegExp, lc...
RegExp: 66 wallclock secs (66.20 CPU) @ 0.15/s (n=10)
lc: 6 wallclock secs ( 5.47 CPU) @ 1.83/s (n=10)
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Benchmark;
use constant SIZE => 1000;
our @a1 = map { "a".$_ } (1..SIZE);
our @a2 = map { "A".$_ } (1..SIZE);
sub use_re
{
my $count = 0;
foreach my $i (@a1) {
foreach my $j (@a2) {
if ($i =~ /^\Q$j\E$/i) {
$count++;
}
}
}
die unless $count == SIZE;
}
sub use_lc
{
my $count = 0;
foreach my $i (@a1) {
foreach my $j (@a2) {
if (lc $i eq lc $j) {
$count++;
}
}
}
die unless $count == SIZE;
}
timethese(10, {
RegExp => \&use_re,
lc => \&use_lc,
});
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