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| author | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-05-05 18:16:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi> | 2001-05-05 18:16:00 +0000 |
| commit | 83df6a1d65c0fba9c27c7fb715fa674b03462cf0 (patch) | |
| tree | 0a054e0b4530814c38513f458ed5af5083134f14 /pod/perlfaq8.pod | |
| parent | 8fc2f983bc0c066c9be215d0b6cf72814390f573 (diff) | |
| download | perl-83df6a1d65c0fba9c27c7fb715fa674b03462cf0.tar.gz | |
Updates on the pods related to the modules included since 5.6.
TODO: perltodo really could use major updating.
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@9998
Diffstat (limited to 'pod/perlfaq8.pod')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlfaq8.pod b/pod/perlfaq8.pod index 1df3b6ac0a..fa4ac446ad 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq8.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq8.pod @@ -447,12 +447,14 @@ probably get away with setting an environment variable: If you want finer granularity than the 1 second that the sleep() function provides, the easiest way is to use the select() function as documented in L<perlfunc/"select">. Try the Time::HiRes and -the BSD::Itimer modules (available from CPAN). +the BSD::Itimer modules (available from CPAN, and starting from +Perl 5.8 Time::HiRes is part of the standard distribution). =head2 How can I measure time under a second? In general, you may not be able to. The Time::HiRes module (available -from CPAN) provides this functionality for some systems. +from CPAN, and starting from Perl 5.8 part of the standard distribution) +provides this functionality for some systems. If your system supports both the syscall() function in Perl as well as a system call like gettimeofday(2), then you may be able to do |