You've got six if's in the body of the loop, which will probably be more overhead than the setup, if you've got any substantial amount of data. Certainly, you're not going to get much benefit out of the various ways of initialising a 1200 element structure (although some ways may be more readable than others). 

my (%hash, @G1_out, @G2_out, ...);
$hash{$_}=\@G1_out for (qw (H0 ...));
$hash{$_}=\@G2_out for (qw (PX ...));

while (my $input = <STDIN>) {
  chomp $input;
  my $prefix=substr($input, 0, 2);
  push @{$hash{$prefix}}, $input;
}

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In reply to Re: Efficient Grouping by tommyw
in thread Efficient Grouping by meetraz

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