#! perl -slw use strict; use Time::HiRes qw[ time ]; sub randNbits { pack 'C*', map rand(256), 1 .. ( shift() / 8 )} our $TARGET //= 0.75; # 75% match our $RECS //= 1e6; our $BITS //= 1024; my @recs; $recs[ $_ ] = randNbits( $BITS ) for 0 .. $RECS-1; my $select = randNbits( $BITS ); my $count = 0; my $start = time; for my $rec ( @recs ) { my $score = unpack( '%32b*', $select & $rec ) / $BITS; ++$count if $score >= $TARGET; } printf "Comparing $RECS records on $BITS attributes to discover $count matches took: %.9f s/rec\n", ( time() - $start ) / $RECS;