Questions tagged [time-hires]

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Why does Time::HiRes::stat break list subscripting?

I can't figure out what's going on here. Where does the 8 below come from? Time::HiRes provides an overload of stat which expands the times to have high-resolution (which is supported on my system). $ perl -MTime::HiRes -e 'print…
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Perl - "utime" is not exported by the Time::HiRes module

Getting this error when adding statement use Time::HiRes qw( utime ); According to Time::HiRes perldoc it should be there, but it's not (looked in HiRes.pm). Does anybody know why? I am using perl 5.24.0, checked on several platforms (unix,…
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Perl Time::HiRes - the best way to replace regular alarm

I need to implement less-than-a-second timeouts in the DBIx::HA package. Having the following code from that module: my $timeout = 0; eval { no strict; my $h = set_sig_handler( 'ALRM', sub { $timeout = 1; die 'TIMEOUT'; }, …
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gettimeofday time difference is occasionally negative

I'm writing an Object Oriented OpenGL framework in perl and I'm running into a weird issue when I measure the DeltaTime between each frame. The delta time seems to go negative every once in a while (every ~.5 seconds). I'm not sure if this is…
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