#! perl -slw use strict; use Time::HiRes qw[ time ]; sub MI { my( $string_es, $string_en, $hash_es, $hash_en ) = @_; my $n_es = unpack '%32b*', $hash_es->{ $string_es }; my $n_en = unpack '%32b*', $hash_en->{ $string_en }; my $prob_es = ( $n_es ) / 6939873; my $prob_en = ( $n_en ) / 6939873; my $intersection = unpack '%32b*', $hash_es->{ $string_es } & $hash_es->{ $string_es }; my $prob_es_en= $intersection / 6939873; $prob_es_en = ( $prob_es_en + ( $prob_es * $prob_en * 0.1 ) ) / 1.1; my $mi = $prob_es_en * log( $prob_es_en / ( $prob_es * $prob_en) ); return $mi; } our $N //= 1e4; my $hypo = 'fred'; my $text = 'bill'; my %hash_es; $hash_es{ $hypo } = ''; vec( $hash_es{ $hypo }, $_, 1 ) = 1 for 1 .. $N; my %hash_en; $hash_en{ $text } = ''; vec( $hash_en{ $text }, $_, 1 ) = 1 for 1 .. $N; my $start = time; my $MI_T = MI( $hypo, $text, \%hash_es, \%hash_en ); printf "Took: %f seconds\n", time() - $start; __END__ C:\test>888162 -N=3e6 Took: 0.001901 seconds