On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:47:37AM -0400, David Golden wrote: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 8:43 AM, David Cantrell <da...@cantrell.org.uk> wrote: > >> Ick. POSIX. That's heavy. > > But has been in core since the dawn of time. > Yes, but I don't want to impose a load penalty for every test that > gets sent if tests happen to be run in completely separate processes > when a two-line replacement will serve.
On this 'ere machine, the time difference between these two: $ perl -e0 $ perl -MPOSIX -e0 is under a hundredth of a second. And that's on an eight year old box. That said, just sprintf does the job just as well. OK, it was *2* hundredths of a second before POSIX.pm got cached. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Just because it is possible to do this sort of thing in the English language doesn't mean it should be done
