#! perl -sw use 5.010; use strict; use Time::HiRes qw[ time ]; use constant BUFSIZ => 64 * 1024; my $start = time; my $size = -s $ARGV[ 0 ]; die("File not a multiple of 4 bytes") unless ( $size % 4 ) == 0; open my $fh, "<:raw", $ARGV[ 0 ] or die; my $check_value = 0; my $buf; while( read( $fh, $buf, BUFSIZ ) ) { for ( unpack 'L*', $buf ) { $check_value ^= $_; $check_value = ( ( $check_value & 0x7fffffff ) << 1 ) | ( $check_value >> 31 ); } } say $check_value; printf "Took: %f seconds\n", time() -$start; __END__ ## Process 4K chunks C:\test>767001-buk 767001-small.dat 2779316821 Took: 1.771000 seconds ## Process 16K chunks C:\test>767001-buk 767001-small.dat 2779316821 Took: 1.750000 seconds ## Process 64K chunks C:\test>767001-buk 767001-small.dat 2779316821 Took: 1.775000 seconds ... ## Process 256K chunks C:\test>767001-buk 767001-small.dat 2779316821 Took: 1.804000 seconds