in reply to YA newbie question: benchmarking your scripts?

And of course you can benchmark whole script with help of time command. Like 
[nikita@home nikita]$ time perl -e 'for (1..100000) {}'
 
real    0m0.065s
user    0m0.030s
sys     0m0.010s

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