[TriLUG] What's an effective method for timing a perl script

[William Sutton]

Well, yes, if ultra-portable means other OSes than *NIX.  In that case, 
using some sort of time calculation routine is probably better, and if 
this is anything inside of a day (sounds likely), probably something one 
could write one's self...

William


On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Ian Kilgore wrote:

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> I was going to say the same thing, but the mention of "ultra-portable"
> put me off =)
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> William Sutton wrote:
> | I'm a little more curious about the application of this than is contained
> | at first glance in the description.  Are you trying to time the entire
> | process or individual file deletions?  If the whole process, then when
> you
> | run it from the command line, you could just do
> |
> | $ time my_process.pl
> |
> | and when it finishes off, you should see something like
> |
> | real    0m0.004s
> | user    0m0.000s
> | sys     0m0.000s
> |
> | fwiw...William
> |
> | On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Matt Frye wrote:
> |
> |
> |>>my $startTime = time;
> |>>while(glob('./*/Recent/*')){unlink $_}
> |>>print time - $startTime,"\n";
> |>
> |>Cool, thanks.  Time:HiRes isn't necessary, in fact neither is adding
> |>stats to my perfectly effective code, but the manager wants to see
> |>them.  Go figure.
> |>
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