Re: Execution time in Perl

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From: Scott Yanoff
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 19:43

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chds652 wrote:
> 
> cjz wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > I am trying to find a way to time the execution of a script.  At this
> > time I have implemented something very simple that grabs the "time" in
> > seconds at the start of the scripts and grabs it again at the end,
> > compares them and prints out the time in seconds.
> >
> > I am looking for a way to measure the execution time more accurately,
> > say in 10ths, 100ths, 1000ths etc. of a second.  Please help.

I think one other way you can do this, if you are on a UNIX platform and
running the PERL script by hand, is to put the word "time" before the
perl script:

$ time some_script.pl

The man page should have more info.
-Scott

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