#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark qw(:all); my @buffer; cmpthese( 200, { 'xSV' => \&xSV, 'CSV' => \&CSV_XS } ); sub xSV { print STDERR '.'; use Text::xSV; my $xsv = new Text::xSV(filename=>"sample.csv", sep=>';'); while (my $row = $xsv->get_row) { @buffer = @$row; #just a "do something" instruction } undef @buffer; print STDERR '.'; } sub CSV_XS { print STDERR '*'; use Text::CSV_XS; use IO::File; my $io = new IO::File "< sample.csv"; my $csv = new Text::CSV_XS({sep_char=>';'}); while (my $row = $csv->getline($io)) { last unless @$row; @buffer = @$row; #just a "do something" instruction } undef @buffer; $io->close; print STDERR '*'; }