Re: Re: Get Exact Time w/out Modules

[Anonymous Monk]

The code is going to be running on an proprietary embedded device. To add software to the image that it runs requires me to pay a hefty sum of money. It has perl already, but no modules.

[simonm]

If you can't compile libraries, I think you're limited to the time() function and its one second accuracy. (You might be able to qx() out to a command-line program that returned the time with hundredths of a second precision, but that'd probably take long enough that it would throw off your timing.

Update: Or, as mpeppler points out, you could use syscall(). It sounds like your manufacturer probably didn't include the headers or syscall.ph, but if they did this would be a good workaround.

[Anonymous Monk]

then you should consider getting rid of this proprietary device and going for something else. this kind of restrictiveness is like have a 10 ton block of cement chained to your ankle; you will never be able to get anywhere or do anything while you are still tied to it!

[Anonymous Monk]

Sadly, in the business world this isn't an option. Already too much money tied up in it by upper management.