#! perl -slw use strict; use Tie::File; use Benchmark::Timer; our $N ||= 1000; sub shuffle { my $ref = @_ == 1 ? $_[ 0 ] : [ @_ ]; for( 0 .. $#$ref ) { my $p = $_ + rand( @{ $ref } - $_ ); @{ $ref }[ $_, $p ] = @{ $ref }[ $p, $_ ]; } return unless defined wantarray; return wantarray ? @{ $ref } : $ref; } open OUT, '>', 'junk.dat' or die $!; printf OUT "%030d\n", $_ for 0 .. $N; close OUT; my @lines; tie @lines, 'Tie::File', 'junk.dat'; my $T = new Benchmark::Timer; $T->start( "shuffle $N" ); shuffle \@lines; $T->stop( "shuffle $N" ); $T->report;