Benchmark-Timer

Benchmark::Timer - Benchmarking with statistical confidence

Perl extension to benchmark code, with or without statistical confidence.

MODULE DEPENDENCIES

To use this module, you will need to install:

Time::HiRes

If you intend on using the statistical features, you will also need to install:

Statistics::PointEstimation.

To test this module, you will need to install:

Test::More

INSTALLATION

To install this package, change to the directory where you unarchived this distribution and type the following:

perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

You can install this package into a non-default location by appending one of the following to the "perl Makefile.PL" command:

"PREFIX=/installation/path" (for installation into a custom location),
"INSTALLDIRS=site" (for installation into site-specific Perl directories)
"INSTALLDIRS=perl" (for installation into standard Perl directories).

If you make the installation into your own directory, then remember that you must tell perl where to search for modules before trying to 'use' them. For example:

use lib '/home/userid/lib';
use Benchmark::Timer;

During the 'make test', the statistical test may take some time to run, depending on how accurate "sleep(1)" is on your system. The normal time is less than 5 seconds.

DOCUMENTATION

Just "perldoc Benchmark::Timer". After installation on Unix systems, you can also do "man Benchmark::Timer".

HOMEPAGE

The CPAN Page:
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Benchmark-Timer/

The Google Code page:
http://code.google.com/p/benchmark-timer/

REPORTING BUGS

http://code.google.com/p/benchmark-timer/issues/entry

COPYRIGHT

LICENSE

This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the file LICENSE in the distribution, http://www.opensource.org/gpl-license.html, and http://www.opensource.org/.

AUTHOR

David Coppit <david@coppit.org> (current maintainer) Andrew Ho <andrew@zeuscat.com> (original author)