Re: Get Exact Time w/out Modules

I can't use modules

Why not? What's the specific restriction you're dealing with? Site policy? Lack of install permissions? Lack of a compiler? Or... what?

If it's just a distribution problem, consider downloading Time::HiRes and copying bits of its source code into your program...

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Re: Re: Get Exact Time w/out Modules by Anonymous Monk on Nov 17, 2003 at 19:03 UTC
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.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Get Exact Time w/out Modules by simonm (Vicar) on Nov 18, 2003 at 00:21 UTC
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.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Re: Get Exact Time w/out Modules by Anonymous Monk on Nov 17, 2003 at 20:03 UTC
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!	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Get Exact Time w/out Modules by Anonymous Monk on Nov 17, 2003 at 21:51 UTC
Sadly, in the business world this isn't an option. Already too much money tied up in it by upper management.	[reply]


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