in reply to Benchmark Schwartzian Transform

Okie, I learned a little bit from critique and here are my first improvements. (Created account name too).
#! /usr/bin/perl -w ###################################################################### +## # File : Perl Schwartzian Transform Demo.pl # History: 16-Mar-2015 Laszlo first version. # 19-Mar-2015 Laszlo, improved a little bit. ###################################################################### +## # A script to demonstrate and measure the Schwartzian Transform. ###################################################################### +## # Some form of documentation: # http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=1120222 use warnings; use strict; use Time::HiRes; my $maxNumberValue = 100; my $intSampleSize = 32000; my @unsortedIntArray = map { int(rand($maxNumberValue)) } ( 1..$intSam +pleSize ); my $compareAsNumberFunction = sub { return $_[0] <=> $_[1]; }; my $compareAsStringFunction = sub { return $_[0] cmp $_[1]; }; my $noTransformFunction = sub { return shift; }; my $sleepyNoTransformFunction = sub { Time::HiRes::usleep(1); return s +hift; }; my $returnLengthFunction = sub { return length(shift); }; schwartzianSortVsRegularSort(\@unsortedIntArray, $compareAsNumberFunct +ion, $noTransformFunction); schwartzianSortVsRegularSort(\@unsortedIntArray, $compareAsStringFunct +ion, $noTransformFunction); schwartzianSortVsRegularSort(\@unsortedIntArray, $compareAsNumberFunct +ion, $sleepyNoTransformFunction); my @chars = ("A".."Z", "a".."z"); my $maxStringLength = 300; my $stringSampleSize = 32000; my @unsortedStringArray = map { (sub { my $string; $string .= $chars[r +and @chars] for 1..(int(rand($maxStringLength)) + 1); return $string; +})->(); } ( 1..$stringSampleSize ); schwartzianSortVsRegularSort(\@unsortedStringArray, $compareAsStringFu +nction, $noTransformFunction); schwartzianSortVsRegularSort(\@unsortedStringArray, , $compareAsNumber +Function, $returnLengthFunction); sub schwartzianSortVsRegularSort { my @unsortedArray_in = @{$_[0]}; my $compareFunction_in = $_[1]; my $transform4Sort_in = $_[2]; print "Collection of size: " . +@unsortedArray_in . " \n"; # Schwartzian sort, Schwartzian sort, Schwartzian sort, Schwartzia +n sort, Schwartzian sort ################################################################## +######################## my $schwartzianStart = Time::HiRes::time; my @schwartzianSorted = map { $_->[0] } sort { $compareFunction_in->($a->[1], $b->[1]) } map { [$_, $transform4Sort_in->($_)] } @unsortedArray_in; my $schwartzianDuration = Time::HiRes::time - $schwartzianStart; # Regular sort, Regular sort, Regular sort, Regular sort, Regular +sort, Regular sort ################################################################## +######################## my $regularStart = Time::HiRes::time; my @regularSorted = sort { $compareFunction_in->($transform4Sort_i +n->($a), $transform4Sort_in->($b)) } @unsortedArray_in; my $regularDuration = Time::HiRes::time - $regularStart; print "Execution time of the Schwartzian Transform: $schwartzianDu +ration s\n"; print "Execution time of the Regular Transform: $regularDurati +on s\n"; if (!(@schwartzianSorted ~~ @regularSorted)) { die "Collections are not equal!" } #print join("; ", @schwartzianSorted); }
Next improvements will be with the benchmark. :-) Now that gave a worst result...