$ perl -v | head -2 | tail -1 This is perl 5, version 30, subversion 0 (v5.30.0) built for cygwin-thread-multi $ ./op_code.pl test_data 0.112352 read lines from disk and do RE. 0.096379 read lines from in-memory file and do RE. $ ./op_code.pl test_data_Q 0.327187 read lines from disk and do RE. 398.730810 read lines from in-memory file and do RE.