You cannot use gettimeofday to measure how long you sleep since a call to that function by itself takes too long for your needs.

my @first = gettimeofday;
my @second = gettimeofday;
say "[@first] [@second] ", $second[1]-$first[1];
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Output:

[1345208919 179070] [1345208919 179072] 2
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