The following code gathers the path names of all SGML files in a directory tree. It just runs VERY VERY slow. I am working with 33,000 files and it took this code almost 5 hours to gather everything into the array.

Is there a faster method anyone could suggest?

Be kind, I am new and this is my first post to the Monks.

Thanks! 

use File::Find;
use Time::localtime;
$now = ctime();

my @dirs = @ARGV or die "No valid directory argument(s)";
find( sub{ m/\.sgml$/ and push @files,"$File::Find::name" and print "$
+File::Find::name\n";}, @dirs, );

$fileCount=@files;

print "\nThere are $fileCount files here.\n";

$then = ctime();

print $now;
print "\n";
print $then;

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