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And how fast is the equivalent find command? Do something like: 
    $ time find dir1 dir2 dir3 -name '*.sgml' > /dev/null

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If that also takes hours, the problem isn't at your Perl program.

Abigail

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Re: Re: Faster Method for Gathering Data
by ChrisS (Monk) on Jul 31, 2003 at 12:49 UTC
    If the requester isn't on Unix, would wrapping the appropriate system("") call with some code to store the start and finish time be useful?

    Maybe the Benchmark module?

    I don't know, just wanted to see if such a strategy might be worthwhile.
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