use Benchmark; my $start1 = Benchmark->new(); ##Code you want to profile my $end1 = Benchmark->new(); my $diff1 = timediff($end1, $start1); print "Section 1: ", timestr($diff1); my $start2 = Benchmark->new(); ##Next section of code you want to profile my $end2 = Benchmark->new(); my $diff2 = timediff($end2, $start2); print "Section 2: ", timestr($diff2); #### use Benchmark; my ($fn1,$fn2) = @ARGV; my %benchs; my $cnt = 0; $benchs{section_1}{start} = Benchmark->new(); open(FH,$fn1) or die(); while (my $line1 = ) { $cnt++ if ($line1 =~ /\./); } print "$cnt\n"; close FH; $benchs{section_1}{end} = Benchmark->new(); $cnt = 0; $benchs{section_2}{start} = Benchmark->new(); open(FH,$fn2) or die(); while (my $line2 = ) { $cnt++ if ($line2 =~ /\./); } print "$cnt\n"; close FH; $benchs{section_2}{end} = Benchmark->new(); foreach my $b (keys %benchs) { print "$b: " ,timestr(timediff($benchs{$b}{end}, $benchs{$b}{start})),"\n"; }