Please read perlperf for general advice for tuning your code.

But first you should focus on making your code correct and readable. For example 

 my $non_ommitted_pattern =~ /(\W+).+/;
    foreach (@a) {our @match = grep {$_ == $non_ommitted_pattern} @a;

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is almost certainly not what you want. $non_ommitted_pattern contains the result of matching $_ against the regex, and == does numeric coparison between the result of that regex match and the current item.

If there is code that doesn't do what you want, and the program as a whole still works correctly, you might even be able to simply remove the non-functional code. So there might be a performance gain in making it correct.

Concerning readability, a consistent indention style would help a lot, as well as using a single variable for a single thing (and not $a, $b, $c ... for the same thing).

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In reply to Re: file comparisons: - making it faster by moritz
in thread file comparisons: - making it faster by $new_guy

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