Thanks for the compliment, this is my first "big" perl project :). The code is still at work (I forgot to bring it home), but I'll remember to get it tomarrow and post it.
Just a few questions:

  1. What exactly does Devel::DProf do? I couldn't make sense of any of the output that the sample was showing. It seemed scary. :( Devel::SmallProf looked better, but not much.
  2. Time::HiRes seemed closer to what I need, and I think I'll try that out.
  3. In a perl book that I have at home, I came across a built in Benchmark module, but it seemed kinda odd. Does anyone know anything about it? Its useage was something like: 
    use Benchmark;
$start=new Benchmark;
run_around_in_circle(1000);
$end=new Benchmark;
print timestr(timediff($end, $start));

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    That seems way too simple too work, I don't trust it. Also, do you think that Benchmark or Time::HiRes slow my program down significantly?

Thanks again.

In reply to Re: Question about benchmarking by jryan
in thread Question about benchmarking by jryan

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