Wow! A rave from the grave :)

This thread relates to an very old version of Time::HiRes. Later versions use a different system API to allow much higher resolution. For further reading see thread at Perl -de1 weirdness. and particularly Re^4: Perl -de1 weirdness..

The resolution under windows is now comparable at around the 7 microsecond mark (on my machine. It will vary somewhat with the speed of your cpu). Certainly faster than a Perl script can report it.

Though the weirdness with Time::HiRes when running under the debugger persists into 5.8.6:

C:\perl5.8.6\bin>.\perl -MTime::HiRes=time -le"print time() for 1 .. 1
+0;"
1130373293.29716
1130373293.29732
1130373293.29739
1130373293.2976
1130373293.29766
1130373293.29784
1130373293.2979
1130373293.29807
1130373293.29814
1130373293.29831

C:\perl5.8.6\bin>.\perl -de1

Loading DB routines from perl5db.pl version 1.25
Editor support available.

Enter h or `h h' for help, or `perldoc perldebug' for more help.

main::(-e:1):   1
  DB<1> use Time::HiRes 'time';

  DB<2> print time(), $/ for 1 .. 10;;
1130373253.21875
1130373253.21875
1130373253.21875
1130373253.21875
1130373253.21875
1130373253.21875
1130373253.21875
1130373253.21875
1130373253.21875
1130373253.21875

  DB<3> q
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