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in reply to Re^4: Is there a way to compare strings without using an array?
in thread Is there a way to compare strings without using an array?

Here is some code which does what you want:
use Modern::Perl; use List::Compare; # Make two arrays with fake data my @left = map {'AA' . int(rand (5000000) + 1000000)} (1 ... 5000000) +; my @right = map {'AA' . int(rand (5000000) + 1000000)} (1 ... 5000000) +; my $start = time; my $lc = List::Compare->new('-u', \@left, \@right); { open my $OUT_INTER, '>', './intersection.txt'; say $OUT_INTER $_ for $lc->get_intersection; } { open my $OUT_DIFF, '>', './difference.txt'; say $OUT_DIFF $_ for $lc->get_symmetric_difference; } my $duration = time - $start; say "Duration: $duration seconds.";
However, on my small laptop (only 2 GByte RAM and running a lot of other programs and services) I get an "Out of memory" error, so two lists of 5 million proteins is too big for it. YMMV if you have a more performant machine. It runs fine and fast for 500,000 proteins (15 seconds), 1,000,000 proteins (52 seconds) and 2,000,000 proteins (185 seconds).

CountZero

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