#!/usr/bin/perl use FastMktime; use Benchmark qw(:all); use POSIX qw(mktime); use Time::Local; my $sstart = time; my $sstop = $sstart + 1e7; my @dates; # Stuff 1e7 sequential datestamps into an array. for (my $s=$sstart; $s<$sstop; $s++) { push(@dates, [ (gmtime $s)[0..5] ]); } my $tmp; my $results = timethese(1, { 'POSIX::mktime' => sub { $tmp = POSIX::mktime(@$_) for @dates }, 'TIME::Local::timegm_nocheck' => sub { $tmp = Time::Local::timegm_nocheck(@$_) for @dates }, 'FastMktime::caching_mktime' => sub { $tmp = FastMktime::caching_mktime(@$_) for @dates }, });