use warnings; use strict; use Benchmark qw(cmpthese); my $str = "Just Another Perl Hacker"; print join " ", do_mapstr (), "\n"; print join " ", do_substr (), "\n"; print join " ", do_regex (), "\n"; print "\n"; cmpthese (-1, { mapstr => \&do_mapstr, substr => \&do_substr, regex => \&do_regex, } ); sub do_mapstr { return map substr($str,$_-3,3),(3..length $str); } sub do_substr { my @parts; push @parts, substr $str, $_, 3 for 0 .. length ($str) - 3; return @parts; } sub do_regex { return $str =~ /(?=(...))/g; }