Re^3: Create the reverse complement DNA sequence without pattern matching and reverse built-in function?

I tried to alert the OP to this issue in my post:

Sorry. I missed that.

your tr/// method missed reversing the string afterwards, but that won't change the fact that the tr/// approach is the way to go.

Right on both counts. And it make's more of a difference than I was expecting, but still 80x faster than the next best:

    tr => q[
        ( my $revcmp = reverse $seq ) =~ tr[ACGTacgt][tgcaTGCA];
    ],

C:\test>junk60
             Rate     hdb atcroft  davido      tr
hdb        9827/s      --    -36%    -71%   -100%
atcroft   15292/s     56%      --    -55%    -99%
davido    33822/s    244%    121%      --    -99%
tr      2640400/s  26770%  17167%   7707%      --
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