use Benchmark qw( cmpthese ) ; my $digits = 2491306578; cmpthese( -5, { u1 => sub{ for ( 0 .. 9 ) { return 0 if $digits !~ /$_/;} return 1; }, u2 => sub{ my @x = sort split //, $digits; my $x = join "", @x; $x =~ tr/0-9//s; length $x == 10 ? return 1 : return 0; }, u3 => sub { return 0 if $digits =~ /(\d).*\1/; return 1; }, u4 => sub { return $digits !~ /(.).*\1/; }, u9 => sub { return 0 if index($digits, substr($digits,0,1), 1) != -1; return 0 if index($digits, substr($digits,1,1), 2) != -1; return 0 if index($digits, substr($digits,2,1), 3) != -1; return 0 if index($digits, substr($digits,3,1), 4) != -1; return 0 if index($digits, substr($digits,4,1), 5) != -1; return 0 if index($digits, substr($digits,5,1), 6) != -1; return 0 if index($digits, substr($digits,6,1), 7) != -1; return 0 if index($digits, substr($digits,7,1), 8) != -1; return 0 if index($digits, substr($digits,8,1), 9) != -1; return 1; }, } ); __END__ #### All unique (2491306578): Rate u1 u2 u3 u4 u9 u1 14387/s -- -71% -91% -91% -93% u2 50142/s 249% -- -67% -67% -74% u3 153182/s 965% 205% -- -0% -22% u4 153395/s 966% 206% 0% -- -22% u9 195811/s 1261% 291% 28% 28% -- Not unique (1102345678): Rate u1 u2 u3 u4 u9 u1 14381/s -- -71% -97% -97% -99% u2 50429/s 251% -- -91% -91% -97% u3 531431/s 3595% 954% -- -4% -65% u4 556425/s 3769% 1003% 5% -- -64% u9 1539566/s 10606% 2953% 190% 177% --