I wish I had a computer that executed 4380585.25 greps per second...
Your test is useless. The @data, $string1 and $string2 used by the test are always undef. I fixed it up below. Note the use of sub { ... } instead of q{ ... }. Subs capture over my variables, while the string is evaled in a different scope where the my varibles don't exist.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Benchmark qw( cmpthese );
my $string1 = qr/tr/;
my $string2 = qr/e/;
my @data = do {
open(my $fh, '<', $0) or die;
<$fh>
};
cmpthese (-3, {
grep_and => sub {
my @r = grep /$string1/ && /$string2/, @data;
return @r;
},
double_grep => sub {
my @r = grep /$string1/, grep /$string2/, @data;
return @r;
},
lookahead => sub {
my @r = grep /^(?=.*$string1)(?=.*$string2)/, @data;
return @r;
}
});
outputs
Rate lookahead double_grep grep_and
lookahead 8114/s -- -52% -62%
double_grep 16986/s 109% -- -21%
grep_and 21483/s 165% 26% --
The contents of @data are probably not all that good, so the figures aren't perfect, but they give a pretty good idea.