#!/usr/bin/perl use 5.6.0; use strict; use warnings FATAL => 'all'; use Benchmark qw( cmpthese ); use Test::More 'no_plan'; my $s1 = join '', (do_rand(1) x 100_000); my $s2 = join '', (do_rand(0) x 100_000); cmpthese( -2, { 'split1' => sub { my $s3 = split1( $s1, $s2 ) }, 'substr1' => sub { my $s3 = substr1( $s1, $s2 ) }, 'subst' => sub { my $s3 = subst($s1, $s2) }, }); my $s30 = split1( $s1, $s2 ); my $s31 = substr1( $s1, $s2 ); my $s32 = subst( $s1, $s2 ); is($s30, $s31); is($s31, $s32); sub split1 { my ($s1, $s2) = @_; my @s1 = split //, $s1; my @s2 = split //, $s2; foreach my $idx ( 0 .. $#s1 ) { if ( $s1[$idx] eq chr(0) ) { $s1[$idx] = $s2[$idx]; } } return join '', @s1; } sub substr1 { my ($s1, $s2) = @_; for my $idx ( 0 .. length($s1) ) { if ( substr($s1,$idx,1) eq chr(0) ) { substr($s1, $idx, 1) = substr($s2, $idx, 1); } } return $s1; } sub subst { my ($s1, $s2) = @_; my $s3 = $s1; { use bytes; $s3 =~ s/(\0)/substr $s2, $+[0]-1, 1/eg; } $s3; } # This makes sure that $s1 has chr(0)'s in it and $s2 does not. sub do_rand { my $n = (shift) ? int(rand(255)) : int(rand(254)) + 1; return chr( $n ); }