Re: Less than a second?

2002-07-13 Thread zentara

On 12 Jul 2002 19:03:43 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Felix
Geerinckx) wrote:

on Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:35:06 GMT, Zentara wrote:

 On 12 Jul 2002 12:16:39 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Felix
 Geerinckx) wrote:
 
on Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:26:05 GMT, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

 I want to calculate how much time a Perl script runs.
 Can you tell me how to calculate using fractions of a second?

 [...]

 The select function works too.
 select(undef,undef,undef,.05);
 
 gives a 5 millisecond delay
 
 perldoc -f select

And how would you use this to determine the running time of a Perl 
program?

Good question. :-)  I guess you would need to use a loop and some
sort of IPC.

I would use time, myself.  

time myscript.pl






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Re: Less than a second?

2002-07-12 Thread Christopher G Tantalo

Octavian Rasnita wrote:

 Hi all,

 I want to calculate how much time a Perl script runs.
 Can you tell me how to calculate using fractions of a second?

if you are doing this in unix, have you tried the timex command?
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Re: Less than a second?

2002-07-12 Thread Felix Geerinckx

on Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:26:05 GMT, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

 I want to calculate how much time a Perl script runs.
 Can you tell me how to calculate using fractions of a second?
 
 The script may run in less than a second, but  Perl always tell me 1
 second, or 2 seconds, etc.

Use the Time::HiRes module. See

http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Time-HiRes


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Re: Less than a second?

2002-07-12 Thread zentara

On 12 Jul 2002 12:16:39 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Felix
Geerinckx) wrote:

on Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:26:05 GMT, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

 I want to calculate how much time a Perl script runs.
 Can you tell me how to calculate using fractions of a second?

Use the Time::HiRes module. See

   http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Time-HiRes


The select function works too.
select(undef,undef,undef,.05);

gives a 5 millisecond delay

perldoc -f select




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Re: Less than a second?

2002-07-12 Thread Felix Geerinckx

on Fri, 12 Jul 2002 15:35:06 GMT, Zentara wrote:

 On 12 Jul 2002 12:16:39 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Felix
 Geerinckx) wrote:
 
on Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:26:05 GMT, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

 I want to calculate how much time a Perl script runs.
 Can you tell me how to calculate using fractions of a second?

 [...]

 The select function works too.
 select(undef,undef,undef,.05);
 
 gives a 5 millisecond delay
 
 perldoc -f select

And how would you use this to determine the running time of a Perl 
program?

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