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> Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 11:51 AM
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> Subject: How to calculate elapsed time ?
>
>
> Hi all:
>
> I'm trying to determine how long an system operation takes.
> Anyone know
> of a simple way to do this ?
>
> I wanted to establish the start time. Then run the
> operation. Then mark
> the finish time. Then substract the start time from the
> finish time to
> get an elapsed time. Here's the simplistic approach I tried.
> I'm sure I
> need a time that is measured in seconds or something like
> that, but I'm
> not sure how to do this.
>
> TIA
>
[code snipped]
>
use Time::Elapse;
# somewhere in your program...
Time::Elapse->lapse(my $now);
#...rest of program execution
print "Time Wasted: $now\n";
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