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You could use Time::HiRes for accurate time measuring:
---- kurt
(code taken from the Perl-Cookbook)use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday); print "Press return: "; my $before = gettimeofday; <>; my $elapsed = gettimeofday - $before; print "you took $elapsed seconds\n";
---- kurt
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