So I lay in bed last night after posting this and I guess putting my question out there made me think more about doing timing analysis. I browse through the perl cookbook often and wasn't there a module on hi-res timing? And I know there's a web user agent module...

So, I got up browsed through the cookbook and yes, what I thought would be non-trivial was actually kind of trivial: 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use strict;

use LWP::Simple;
use Time::HiRes;

my $totalTime = 0;

my $i;

for ($i=0; $i < 20; $i++) {

     my $before = Time::HiRes::gettimeofday();

     if ( !defined( my $content = LWP::Simple::get('http://chicodigita
+l.com/cgi-bin/temp/webtool.cgi'))) {
             print "failed get\n"; }

     my $elapsed = Time::HiRes::gettimeofday() - $before;

     print "get $i in $elapsed seconds.\n";

     $totalTime = $totalTime + $elapsed;
}

$totalTime = $totalTime / 20;

print "Average response time for 20 requests was: $totalTime seconds.\
+n";

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Hey, it works! Well, it's more a measure of the internet speed, but averaged, at least that would be a speed difference as perceived by the user. So I'll keep you posted on my finding here.

Thank you perlmonks, for making me think.

-alan

In reply to Re: CGI speed: one script versus many modules by alanraetz
in thread CGI speed: one script versus many modules by alanraetz

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