X:\>perl -w tmp.pl Running with a dataset of 200000000 Rate tr_via_readline 10k tr_via_readline 100k tr_via_readline 1m tr_map_file tr_in_memory tr_via_readline 10k 2.18/s -- -15% -17% -71% -76% tr_via_readline 100k 2.55/s 17% -- -2% -66% -72% tr_via_readline 1m 2.61/s 20% 2% -- -66% -72% tr_map_file 7.60/s 249% 198% 191% -- -18% tr_in_memory 9.25/s 325% 263% 254% 22% --