Thanks again merlyn. This one (l_merlyn2) was considerably slower than your original. A bit of it was the change to regex instead of split to process the strings. Mostly it was more expensive to build the return string. Since I only allow a..z, I changed for 0..$#count; to for (ord('a')..$#count); These changes (l_merlyn3) made it faster than the original.

l_merlyn: 16 wallclock secs (15.46 usr + 0.00 sys = 15.46 CPU) @ 6623.54/s (n=102400)
l_merlyn2: 24 wallclock secs (24.14 usr + 0.00 sys = 24.14 CPU) @ 4241.92/s (n=102400)
l_merlyn3: 15 wallclock secs (14.48 usr + 0.00 sys = 14.48 CPU) @ 7071.82/s (n=102400)

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Difference Of Two Strings by YuckFoo
in thread Difference Of Two Strings by YuckFoo

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