Some guesses:

You didn't anchor your regexes like in the grep example, they only need to match at the start /^0\.0\.0\.0/ , the other regex to exclude comments is obsolet then.

And use chomp not an (again unachored) regex to strip newlines.

I might also try to use a while (my $line = <$in> ){...} loop instead of for , but you need to do something like open my $in ,"<", \$got; beforehand.

Perl might still be slower, because it needs more time for start up and compiling*.

(all code untested)

PS: there are more advanced tricks possible in this specific case, but you want to learn Perl and I don't wanna exaggerate it.

update

the substitution $_ =~ s/0\.0\.0\.0 //; doesn't make sense if you match the remaining of the line right away

 
if (/^\Q0.0.0.0\E (.*)$/) {
    print "<<<$1>>>";
}

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Cheers Rolf
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*) especially LWP::Simple! For a fair comparison try to pipe in curl.

In reply to Re: Making this script process 56,000 lines 5 times faster by LanX
in thread Making this script process 56,000 lines 5 times faster by kris004

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