#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark qw(:all :hireswallclock); foreach my $arraySize(10,100,1_000,10_000,100_000) { my @numdata=map rand, 0..$arraySize; my @strdata=map {sprintf "%d",$_} @numdata; print "========== ARRAY SIZE: $arraySize\n"; cmpthese( -1, { 'str-ST' => sub { my @arr = @strdata; @arr = map { $_->[0] } sort {$a->[1]<=>$b->[1]} map { [$_, length($_)]} @arr; }, 'str-sort' => sub { my @arr = @strdata; @arr = sort {length($a) <=> length($b)} @arr; }, 'num-ST' => sub { my @arr = @numdata; @arr = map { $_->[0] } sort {$a->[1]<=>$b->[1]} map { [$_, length($_)]} @arr; }, 'num-sort' => sub { my @arr = @numdata; @arr = sort {length($a) <=> length($b)} @arr; }, } ); }