take a look at the POE_Cookbook/Looping section. you might be able to break your calculations into N discrete steps. then you could do something like:


my $N = setupSub( %myParameters );
while (defined( my $at = stepSub())) {
  printf "%d percent done\n", $at/$N;
}
my $results = resultsSub();

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or, you could have your subroutine take an optional callback and granularity.

my $granularity = 5;

sub showProgress {  # will be called $granularity+1 times
  my $at = shift;
  if ($at == 0) {
    print "starting\n";
  } elsif ($at == $granularity) {
    print "done\n";
  } else {
    print "$at/$granularity done\n";
  }
}

my $results = mySub(%myParam,
  progress => {
    callback => \&showProgress,
    granularity => $granularity
  }
);

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In reply to Re: User Feedback for Subroutines with Long Execution Time by zengargoyle
in thread User Feedback for Subroutines with Long Execution Time by arunhorne

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