sub foo {
    my ($s1, $s2) = @_;

    my @s1 = split //, $s1;
    my @s2 = split //, $s2;

    foreach my $idx ( 0 .. $#s1 ) {
        if ( $s1[$idx] eq chr(0) ) {
            $s1[$idx] = $s2[$idx];
        }
    }

    return join '', @s1;
}

##</code><code>##

#!/usr/bin/perl

use 5.6.0;

use strict;
use warnings FATAL => 'all';

use Benchmark qw( cmpthese );

my $s1 = join '', (do_rand(1) x 100_000);
my $s2 = join '', (do_rand(0) x 100_000);

cmpthese( -2, {
    'split1' => sub { my $s3 = split1( $s1, $s2 ) },
    'substr1' => sub { my $s3 = substr1( $s1, $s2 ) },
});

sub split1 {
  my ($s1, $s2) = @_;

  my @s1 = split //, $s1;
  my @s2 = split //, $s2;

  foreach my $idx ( 0 .. $#s1 ) { 
    if ( $s1[$idx] eq chr(0) ) { 
      $s1[$idx] = $s2[$idx];
    } 
  } 

  return join '', @s1;
}

sub substr1 {
  my ($s1, $s2) = @_;

  for my $idx ( 0 .. length($s1) ) {
    if ( substr($s1,$idx,1) eq chr(0) ) {
      substr($s1, $idx, 1) = substr($s2, $idx, 1);
    }
  } 

  return $s1;
} 

# This makes sure that $s1 has chr(0)'s in it and $s2 does not.
sub do_rand {
  my $n = (shift) ? int(rand(255)) : int(rand(254)) + 1;
  return chr( $n );
}

__END__

##</code><code>##

#!/usr/bin/perl

use 5.6.0;

use strict;
use warnings FATAL => 'all';

#use Test::More no_plan => 1;
use Benchmark qw( cmpthese );

my $s1 = do_rand(0, 100_000);
my $s2 = do_rand(1, 100_000);
my $expected = split1( \$s1, \$s2 );

cmpthese( -3, {
  'avar2' => sub {
    my $s3 = $s1; avar2( \$s3, \$s2 );
#    is( $s3, $expected, "avar2" );
  },
  'moritz' => sub {
    my $s3 = $s1; moritz( \$s3, \$s2 );
#    is( $s3, $expected, "moritz" );
  },
});

sub split1 {
  my ($s1, $s2) = @_;

  my @s1 = split //, $$s1;
  my @s2 = split //, $$s2;

  foreach my $idx ( 0 .. $#s1 ) {
    if ( $s1[$idx] eq chr(0) ) {
      $s1[$idx] = $s2[$idx];
    }
  }

  $$s1 = join '', @s1;
}

sub avar2 {
  my ($s1, $s2) = @_;
  use bytes;
  $$s1 =~ s/\0/substr $$s2, pos($$s1), 1/eg;
}

sub moritz {
  my ($s1, $s2) = @_;

  my $pos = 0;
  while ( 0 < ( $pos = index $$s1, "\000", $pos ) ) {
    substr( $$s1, $pos, 1 ) = substr( $$s2, $pos, 1 );
  }
}

sub do_rand {
  my ($min, $len) = @_;
  my $n = "";
  for (1 .. $len) {
    $n .= chr( rand(255-$min)+$min )
  }
  return $n;
}

__END__