You may get a very substantial improvement by only checking the longitudes if the latitudes are close. You can do this easily by splitting your if into two.

This runs in around 6 seconds here! 

my @lat  = map { rand( 180 ) - 90 } 1 .. 300_000;
my @long = map { rand( 180 ) - 90 } 1 .. @lat;

for my $lat ( 0 .. $#lat - 1 ) {
    if ( abs( $lat[$lat] - $lat[$lat+1] ) < 0.01 ) {
        for my $long ( 0 .. $#long - 1 ) {
            if ( abs( $long[$long] - $long[$long+1] ) < 0.01 ) {
                print "\$lat[$lat] = $lat[$lat] \$long[$long] = $long[
+$long]\n";
            }
        }
    }
}

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Depending the spread of your points, this may give a very worthwhile improvement. But, if your points are all fairly close anyway, it won't be worthwhile.

Unless I state otherwise, all my code runs with strict and warnings

In reply to Re: fastest way to compare numerical strings? by FunkyMonk
in thread fastest way to compare numerical strings? by Anonymous Monk

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