#!/usr/bin/perl -w # usage : ./this_script.pl input_file > captured_benchmarks use strict; use Benchmark; my @data = do { open(my $fh, '<', $0) or die; <$fh> }; timethese (1000000, { grep_and => sub{ my @res1 = grep /GGGGGACACCTTCTCTCTCT/ && /RH_MEa0001bG06/,@data; }, double_grep => sub{ my @res2 = grep /GGGGGACACCTTCTCTCTCT/,grep /RH_MEa0001bG06/,@data; }, lookahead_grep => sub{ my @res3 = grep /^(?=.*GGGGGACACCTTCTCTCTCT)(?=.*RH_MEa0001bG06)/,@data; } } );