!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; # fast_uniq.plx -- 10 unique digits in a 10-char string use Benchmark qw( cmpthese ); use Inline C => <<'END_C'; /* works for ASCII, EBCDIC, UTF-8 */ int offset; SV* digits_sv; void prime_variables (SV* input_sv, SV* zero_sv) { digits_sv = newSVsv(input_sv); char* zero_str = SvPV_nolen(zero_sv); offset = *zero_str; } int test_uniq_digits () { STRLEN digits_len = SvCUR( digits_sv ); char* string = SvPV( digits_sv, digits_len ); char test_buf[10] = { 0,0,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0,0 }; int i, index; for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) { index = *string - offset; if (index < 0 || index > 9) croak("illegal character: '%c'", *string); if (test_buf[index] == 1) return 0; test_buf[index] = 1; string++; } return 1; } END_C run_test("0123456789", "UNIQUE:\n"); run_test("1123456789", "NOT_UNIQUE:\n"); sub run_test { my ($digits, $message) = @_; prime_variables($digits, "0"); print $message; cmpthese( -5, { u1 => sub { for ( 0 .. 9 ) { return 0 if $digits !~ /$_/; } return 1; }, u1000 => sub { test_uniq_digits }, }); print "\n\n"; }