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Thursday March 07, 2002
01:06 AM

Time::Piece

[ #3339 ]

Cheers matts, saved me a code re-write. A former co-worker of mine wrote an in-house module years ago that does almost everything Time::Piece does. Except that it's sloooow, really slooow. I've been wanting to re-write the damn thing for ages, it uses Date::Manip which I think is the offending beast. I never got around to the re-write of course and faced the "opinions" of those higher up on the totem pole at work, yeh but our in-house module just works, if it aint broke don't fix it. So, tonight I wrote some benchmark code, just had both modules calc today's date in YYYYMMDD format (20000 iterations):

Benchmark: timing 20000 iterations of Time::Piece, DateAndTime.pm...
Time::Piece: 7 wallclock secs ( 6.68 usr + 0.39 sys = 7.07 CPU) @ 2828.85/s (n=20000)
DateAndTime.pm: 168 wallclock secs (162.68 usr 0.03 sys + 0.00 cusr 0.02 csys = 162.73 CPU) @ 122.92/s (n=20000)

'kay, I think I'll use Time::Piece thanks...


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  • FWIW, from Date/Manip.pod:

    The downside is that Date::Manip is slow, especially when compared to several of the other Date/Time modules which are written in C. Although I am working on making Date::Manip faster, it will never be as fast as these modules. And before anyone asks, Date::Manip will never be translated to C (at least by me). I write C because I have to. I write perl because I like to. Date::Manip is something I do because it interests me, not something I'm paid for. Yes, Date::Manip is

  • A design for something identical to this module was etched in red on my whiteboard for the first six months of 2000. (After Dec. 31, 1999 when I fixed a bunch of contract code that was supposed to have been reviewed, and then spent Jan. 3 reviewing it and thinking. Am I the only person who actually read the docs to localtime() the first time he used it?) Of course, I had no time to actually implement the thing. Then one day Time::Object appeared. I was amazed; it was as if Matt had read my mind. (And

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