I guess the performance issue that your source is referring to would be the repetitive load and unload of the Perl interpreter. On a low-end computer this might make a difference. But, I'd say it's rare. As other people have already pointed out, crond in itself is very efficient and very reliable.

If you still decide to go for a 24/7 application and also want your 'event' to take place at a given second in the minute (not 60 seconds after the last event finished) then I'd propose you to give a look at Schedule::ByClock.pm which does just that.

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In reply to Re: writing looped programs by Biker
in thread writing looped programs by tachekent

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