use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark 'cmpthese'; sub create { map {rand() < $_[1] ? 1 : 0} 1..$_[0] } sub compare1 { # naive my $x = shift; my $n = shift; return map { my $y=$_; scalar grep { $y->[$_] == 1 and $x->[$_] == 1 } 0..$n-1 } @_; } sub compare2 { # first find 1s in x, then check in ys my $x = shift; my $n = shift; my @nxs = grep { $x->[$_] } 0..$n-1; return map { my $y=$_; scalar grep { $y->[$_] == 1 } @nxs } @_ ; } sub compare3 { # stringify my $x = shift; $x = join '', @$x; return map { my $j = $x & join'',@$_; $j =~ tr/1/1/ } @_; } my $n = 15000; my $p = 0.005; my $ny = 10; my @x = create $n, $p; my @ys = map { [ create $n, $p ] } 1..$ny; my @r1 = compare1 \@x, $n, @ys; my @r2 = compare2 \@x, $n, @ys; my @r3 = compare3 \@x, @ys; print "compare1: @r1\n"; print "compare2: @r2\n"; print "compare3: @r3\n"; cmpthese( -5, { compare1 => sub{ compare1 \@x, $n, @ys }, compare2 => sub{ compare2 \@x, $n, @ys }, compare3 => sub{ compare3 \@x, @ys }, } );