Just taking a guess at what you are doing, I created a file of 1500 random IP-like addresses

$ perl -E '
say join q{.}, map { int rand 256 } 1 .. 4
   for 1 .. 1500;' > spw1112250.dat
$

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I then put a script together to read the file and construct a hash keyed on the first three octets then look up another octet to see if it occurred in the data file. I timed the process in the script which took milliseconds rather than seconds on a fairly old laptop.

use strict;
use warnings;

use 5.014;

use Time::HiRes qw{ gettimeofday tv_interval };
my $startTV = [ gettimeofday() ];

my $inFile = q{spw1112250.dat};
open my $inFH, q{<}, $inFile
   or die qq{open: < $inFile: $!\n};
my @lines = <$inFH>;
close $inFH
   or die qq{close: < $inFile: $!\n};

s{\.\d+$}{} for @lines;

my %lookupIPs;
@lookupIPs{ @lines } = ( 1 ) x @lines;

my $lookFor = q{17.23.213};
say
   qq{$lookFor },
   $lookupIPs{ $lookFor } ? q{} : q{not },
   qq{found in $inFile};

say qq{Process took @{ [ tv_interval( $startTV, [ gettimeofday() ] ) ]
+ } seconds};

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The output.

17.23.213 not found in spw1112250.dat
Process took 0.002678 seconds

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Of course, your integer comparison may be more complex than this simple lookup. Perhaps you could show us exactly what your comparison does.

Cheers,

JohnGG

In reply to Re: perl quicker than bash? by johngg
in thread perl quicker than bash? by TiffanyButterfly

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