#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark; use Data::Dumper; my $DNAlength= 600000; my $sequencelength= 3; my $testfilename= 'DNA.tst'; my $bufsize= 1024; # create testdata open(my $testfile, ">$testfilename") or die "$testfilename: $!"; my $buffer = ''; for (my $i=$DNAlength; $i; --$i) { $buffer.= qw(A C G T)[rand 4]; if (length($buffer) > $bufsize) { print $testfile $buffer; $buffer = ''; } } print $testfile $buffer; close $testfile; a1: { # Start collecting data my %DNA_sequence_count; my $a1_0=new Benchmark; open($testfile, $testfilename) or die "$testfilename: $!"; my $kept=0; while (1) { my $read_bytes = read($testfile, $buffer, $bufsize-$kept); last unless $read_bytes; my $end_buffer = $read_bytes-$sequencelength; for (my $i=0; $i <= $end_buffer; ++$i) { ++$DNA_sequence_count{substr($buffer, $i, $sequencelength)}; } $kept= $sequencelength-1; $buffer= substr($buffer, $end_buffer+1, $kept); } close $testfile; my $a1_n=new Benchmark; print "the file code took:",timestr(timediff($a1_n, $a1_0)),"\n"; } a2: { # Start collecting data my %DNA_sequence_count; my $a2_0=new Benchmark; open($testfile, $testfilename) or die "$testfilename: $!"; my $allbuffered= <$testfile>; close $testfile; my $end_buffer= length($allbuffered)-$sequencelength+1; for (my $i=0; $i <= $end_buffer; ++$i) { ++$DNA_sequence_count{substr($allbuffered, $i, $sequencelength)}; } my $a2_n=new Benchmark; print "the scalar code took:",timestr(timediff($a2_n, $a2_0)),"\n"; } a3: { # Start collecting data my %DNA_sequence_count; my $a3_0=new Benchmark; open($testfile, $testfilename) or die "$testfilename: $!"; my $allbuffered= <$testfile>; close $testfile; ++$DNA_sequence_count{$1.$2} while $allbuffered=~ /(.)(?=(..))/g; my $a3_n=new Benchmark; print "the regex code took:",timestr(timediff($a3_n, $a3_0)),"\n"; }