Urodele 17:47:27 ~/Desktop> perl -w weedtest Benchmark: timing 100000 iterations of mybinary, singlepass, useagrep... mybinary: 1 wallclock secs ( 0.58 usr + 0.01 sys = 0.59 CPU) @ 169491.53/s (n=100000) singlepass: 1 wallclock secs ( 0.58 usr + 0.00 sys = 0.58 CPU) @ 172413.79/s (n=100000) useagrep: 270 wallclock secs (266.95 usr + 0.63 sys = 267.58 CPU) @ 373.72/s (n=100000) Rate useagrep mybinary singlepass useagrep 374/s -- -100% -100% mybinary 169492/s 45253% -- -2% singlepass 172414/s 46034% 2% -- Urodele 17:51:59 ~/Desktop> dprofpp Total Elapsed Time = 361.1940 Seconds User+System Time = 306.4840 Seconds Exclusive Times %Time ExclSec CumulS #Calls sec/call Csec/c Name 80.7 247.5 247.52 22012 0.0112 0.0112 main::SEARCHFASTA 7.78 23.84 23.849 127206 0.0000 0.0000 main::BANDPASS 4.45 13.64 13.649 164 0.0832 0.0832 main::GET_TEXT 3.07 9.399 33.248 1 9.3990 33.248 main::WEED 2.30 7.060 7.060 1 7.0600 7.0600 main::INDEX_FASTA 0.82 2.519 2.519 164 0.0154 0.0154 main::ADD_SPAN 0.60 1.829 4.398 1 1.8292 4.3983 main::HTML_FORMAT 0.36 1.110 1.110 1 1.1100 1.1100 main::WEEDNUM 0.20 0.610 308.51 2 0.3049 154.25 main::MAIN 0.12 0.380 0.380 1 0.3800 0.3800 main::OVERLAP 0.11 0.340 0.340 1 0.3400 0.3400 main::CLUSTER 0.05 0.140 0.140 2 0.0700 0.0700 main::GET_ENDS 0.02 0.050 0.050 1 0.0500 0.0500 main::TABLE_IT 0.01 0.030 0.410 1 0.0300 0.4100 main::SORT_HITS 0.01 0.020 0.020 2 0.0100 0.0100 main::WEED_HEADERS Urodele 17:54:51 ~/Desktop>