#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Benchmark; my $file = shift; my ($start, $end); $start = new Benchmark; brian($file); $end = new Benchmark; calc($start, $end, 'brian'); $start = new Benchmark; japhy($file); $end = new Benchmark; calc($start, $end, 'japhy'); sub calc { my ($start, $end, $test) = @_; my $diff = timediff($end, $start); print "Time taken on ", $test, " ",timestr($diff, 'all'), " seconds\n"; } sub brian { my $file = shift; open(my $in, '<', $file) or die "error: open $file: $!"; for (1..1000) { seek($in, 0, 0); my @lines = grep length(), map { s/#.*//; s/^\s+|\s+$//g; $_ } <$in>; } close($in); } sub japhy { my $file = shift; open(my $in, '<', $file) or die "error: open $file: $!"; for (1..1000) { seek($in, 0, 0); my @lines = grep length(), map { s/#.*//; s/^\s+//g; s/\s$//g; $_ } <$in>; } close($in); }