use strict; use warnings; use Encode qw( _utf8_on ); use Benchmark::Timer; use Devel::Peek; my $timer = Benchmark::Timer->new; my $latin1 = "foo"; my $utf8 = "foo"; _utf8_on($utf8); my %latin1_hash = ( $latin1 => 1 ); my %utf8_hash = ( $utf8 => 1 ); warn "===================================\n"; warn "Latin-1 hash key:\n----------------------------------\n"; Dump \%latin1_hash; warn "===================================\n"; warn "UTF-8 hash key:\n-----------------------------------\n"; Dump \%utf8_hash; warn "===================================\n"; for my $iter ( 1 .. 10 ) { my $total = 0; $timer->start("Latin-1 hash key, Latin-1 probe"); $total += $latin1_hash{$latin1} for 1 .. 1_000_000; $timer->stop("Latin-1 hash key, Latin-1 probe"); $total = 0; $timer->start("Latin-1 hash key, UTF-8 probe"); $total += $utf8_hash{$latin1} for 1 .. 1_000_000; $timer->stop("Latin-1 hash key, UTF-8 probe"); $total = 0; $timer->start("UTF-8 hash key, Latin-1 probe"); $total += $latin1_hash{$utf8} for 1 .. 1_000_000; $timer->stop("UTF-8 hash key, Latin-1 probe"); $total = 0; $timer->start("UTF-8 hash key, UTF-8 probe"); $total += $utf8_hash{foo} for 1 .. 1_000_000; $timer->stop("UTF-8 hash key, UTF-8 probe"); } warn scalar $timer->reports . "\n";