in reply to Re: How to measure compilation time?
in thread How to measure compilation time?

Yes. You're also including a shell process and a new interpreter.

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Re^3: How to measure compilation time?
by betterworld (Curate) on Jul 11, 2006 at 19:55 UTC
    You're also including a shell process
    Actually, you aren't, because the command does not contain shell meta characters (compare perldoc -f system). However I agree to xdg that the more-than-one-argument form of system would be better.