#! /usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use List::Util 'first'; use Benchmark qw(:hireswallclock cmpthese); sub grap (&@) { my ($sub,@list) = @_; foreach (@list) { return 1 if ($sub->($_)); } return; } sub grap2 (&@) { my $sub = shift; foreach (@_) { return 1 if ($sub->($_)); } return; } sub grap3 (&\@) { my $sub = shift; foreach (@$_[0]) { return 1 if ($sub->($_)); } return; } my $count = 10000; my @data = ( [ start => [ (0) x $count ] ], [ middle => [ (0) x $count ] ], [ end => [ (0) x $count ] ], ); $data[0][1][0] = 1; $data[1][1][$count/2 - 1] = 1; $data[2][1][-1] = 1; foreach my $i (@data) { my $name = $i->[0]; my $array = $i->[1]; print uc "\n$name:\n"; cmpthese (-1, #2_000_000, { 'grap' => sub { my $result = grap { $_ } @$array }, 'grap2' => sub { my $result = grap2 { $_ } @$array }, 'grap3' => sub { my $result = grap2 { $_ } @$array }, 'grep' => sub { my $result = grep { $_ } @$array }, 'first' => sub { my $result = first { $_ } @$array }, }) }