Just be careful to create your data as bitstrings in the first place. If you create arrays and then turn them into bitstrings to do the comparison, then it is not that fast: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Benchmark 'cmpthese';

sub create { map {rand() < $_[1] ? 1 : 0} 1..$_[0] }

sub compare2a { # first find 1s in x, then check in ys
  my $x = shift;
  my $n = shift;
  my @nxs = grep { $x->[$_] } 0..$n-1;
  return map { scalar grep {$_} @{$_}[@nxs] } @_;
}

sub compare4 { # bitstrings
  my $x = shift;
  $x = pack 'b*', join '', @$x;
  return map { unpack '%32b*', ( $x & pack 'b*', join'',@$_ ) } @_;
}

my $n  = 15000;
my $p  = 0.005;
my $ny = 10;
my @x = create $n, $p;
my @ys = map { [ create $n, $p ] } 1..$ny;

my @r2a = compare2a \@x, $n, @ys;
my @r4 = compare4 \@x, @ys;
print "compare2a: @r2a\n";
print "compare4:  @r4\n";

cmpthese( -5, {  
               compare2a => sub{ compare2a \@x, $n, @ys },
               compare4 => sub{ compare4 \@x, @ys },
              }
        );

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Result: 
           Rate  compare4 compare2a
compare4  246/s        --      -55%
compare2a 543/s      120%        --

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In reply to Re^3: Comparing two arrays by hdb
in thread Comparing two arrays by baxy77bax

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