#! perl -slw use strict; use Benchmark qw[ cmpthese ]; use List::Util qw[ shuffle ]; our @terms = qw[ the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog ]; our $re = join'', map "(?=^.*$_)", @terms; #$re = qr/$re/; our @lines = map join( ' ', shuffle @terms), 1 .. 100; push @lines, ( 'every good boy deserves food' ) x 100; our( $a, $b ) = (0) x 2; cmpthese -1, { a=>q[ /$re/ && ++$a for @lines; ], b=>q[ for my $str ( @lines ) { !grep( $str !~ /$_/, @terms) && ++$b; } ], }; print "$a:$b"; __END__ C:\test>junk48 Rate b a b 82.7/s -- -97% a 2632/s 3082% -- 389700:12000