Can someone point me in the right direction or let me know what I'm doing wrong with the below peice of code? I am trying to use Benchmark::timethis to compare two ways of scraping /bin/. Per CPAN's doc page I am using the correct syntax.
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark qw(timethis); my @bin = glob("/bin/*"); timethis(-2, { one => 'sort { -s $a <=> -s $b } @bin', two => 'map $_->[0], sort { $a->[1] <=> $b->[1] } map [ +$_, -s $_], @bin' } );
Cpan says:
timethese(0, { test1 => '...', test2 => '...'})
Execution:
$ perl thing usage: $result = timethis($time, 'code' ); or $result = timethis($time, sub { code } );
What am I missing?

In reply to Benchmark - timethis syntax? by osbosb

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