perl bin/algorithm3.pl 1_000_000_000 Prime numbers : 50847534 Compute time : 0.163 sec perl bin/primesieve.pl 1_000_000_000 Prime numbers : 50847534 Compute time : 0.071 sec perl bin/primeutil.pl 1_000_000_000 Prime numbers : 50847534 Compute time : 0.025 sec perl -Mntheory=:all -E 'say prime_count(1e9)' 50847534 0.020s user time