package WWW::Spinn3r::Common; use Time::HiRes qw(time gettimeofday tv_interval); sub debug { my ($self, $msg) = @_; print "debug: (WWW::Spinn3r) $msg\n" if $self->{debug}; } sub start_timer { my ($self); return { now => [gettimeofday] }; } sub howlong { my ($self, $time) = @_; my $interval = tv_interval ( $$time{now}, [gettimeofday] ); my $m = sprintf("%5.3f", $interval); return $m; } 1;