#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use vars qw/$size $iter/; use Benchmark qw(cmpthese); use Data::Dumper; $size ||= 1000; $iter ||= 1000; sub FAQ_FY { my $array = shift; my $i; for ($i = @$array; --$i; ) { my $j = int rand ($i+1); next if $i == $j; @$array[$i,$j] = @$array[$j,$i]; } } sub shuffl (\@) { my $r=pop; $a = $_ + rand @{$r} - $_ and @$r[$_, $a] = @$r[$a, $_] for (0..$#{$r}); } my @array = 1 .. $size; cmpthese(-1, { FAQ_FY => sub { FAQ_FY \@array }, shuffl => sub { shuffl @array }, }); my (%buckets, %d, @temp);; my @set = qw(A B C D); for (1 .. $iter ) { @temp=@set; FAQ_FY \@temp; $buckets{"@temp"}{FAQ_FY}++; @temp=@set; shuffl @temp; $buckets{"@temp"}{shuffl}++; } print "\npermutation | FAQ_FY | shuffl \n"; print "----------------------------------\n"; for my $key (sort keys %buckets) { printf "%8.8s: | %4d | %4d \n", $key, $buckets{$key}{FAQ_FY}, $buckets{$key}{shuffl}, $d{FAQ_FY}{Ex} += $buckets{$key}{FAQ_FY}; $d{FAQ_FY}{Ex2} += $buckets{$key}{FAQ_FY}**2; $d{shuffl}{Ex} += $buckets{$key}{shuffl}; $d{shuffl}{Ex2} += $buckets{$key}{shuffl}**2; } print "------------------------------------------------------\n"; printf "Std. Dev. | %0.3f | %0.3f \n", sqrt( ($d{FAQ_FY}{Ex2} - ($d{FAQ_FY}{Ex}**2/24))/23 ), sqrt( ($d{shuffl}{Ex2} - ($d{shuffl}{Ex}**2/24))/23 ); __END__