X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=pod%2Fperlfaq8.pod;h=cbc87b5fd77113df4223cec2dfe4f3390c1595dd;hb=368c9434e40b3ef162b100271eb4d6a1dd886bbc;hp=c4036ff35d6fc626390a62b4a38d6ad7535f9662;hpb=9d9477b1b5a6ab420403942c0942c613290f7911;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/pod/perlfaq8.pod b/pod/perlfaq8.pod index c4036ff..cbc87b5 100644 --- a/pod/perlfaq8.pod +++ b/pod/perlfaq8.pod @@ -449,8 +449,8 @@ http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/misc/ancient/tutorial/eg/itimers.pl . =head2 How can I measure time under a second? -In general, you may not be able to. The Time::HiRes module (available -from CPAN) provides this functionality for some systems. +The Time::HiRes module (available from CPAN) provides this +functionality for some systems. In general, you may not be able to. But if your system supports both the syscall() function in Perl as well as a system call like gettimeofday(2),