Thanks, I'll look into this...looks good so far though.

I can just stick my @t = times; print join("\n", @t), "\n";
at the bottom of the script.


On 5/1/06, John W. Krahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anthony Ettinger wrote:
>
> I'm not trying to benchmark, just gather some real-world data in my tools.
>
> Basically, I set $start_time = time();, subtract out time waiting during
> user input, and take the difference of $end_time = time();
>
> Whether this is a good way of gather the data is beyond the question...I'm
> curious if there's a way to trigger a pause/unpause routine automatically
> from my library when <STDIN> is used.

You may just want to use the times() function:

perldoc -f times

It returns the time the CPU uses so it won't include the time waiting for IO.



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