h1. Perl Timer Code http://stackoverflow.com/questions/656537/is-there-a-better-way-to-determine-elapsed-time-in-perl http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=519091 3 different ways: bc.. #!/usr/bin/perl -wT use Time::HiRes; use Time::HiRes qw( time ); my $start_time = [Time::HiRes::gettimeofday()]; my $start = Time::HiRes::gettimeofday(); my $start_a = time(); print "hey\n"; my $diff = Time::HiRes::tv_interval($start_time); my $end = Time::HiRes::gettimeofday(); my $end_a = time(); print "diff 1 = $diff\n"; printf("diff 2 = %.6f\n", $end - $start); printf("diff 3 = %.6f\n", $end_a - $start_a); p. end code #programming - #perl