use strict; use warnings; use DateTime; use Date::Calc qw (Add_Delta_DHMS); use Benchmark qw(cmpthese); my $dt = DateTime->new( year => 2011, month => 1, day => 1, hour => 0, minute => 0, second => 0, ); my ($year, $month, $day, $hour, $min, $sec) = (2011, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0); cmpthese( -1, { 'DateTime' => sub { $dt->add(hours => 1, minutes => 2, seconds => 3); }, 'Date::Calc' => sub { ($year, $month, $day, $hour, $min, $sec) = Add_Delta_DHMS($year, $month, $day, $hour, $min, $sec, 0, 1, 2, 3); }, 'tsk1979' => sub { my $lat = 23.438; my $slon = 68.000; my $elon = 90.000; my $clon = $slon; my $incrlon = 0.01; my $time = time; my ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = localtime($time); my $incrtime = 1; my $printmon; my $printyear; while ($clon < $elon) { $printmon = $mon + 1; $printyear = $year + 1900; $clon = $clon + $incrlon; $time = $time + $incrtime; ($sec, $min, $hour, $mday, $mon, $year, $wday, $yday, $isdst) = localtime($time); } }, } ); __END__ $ perl -l 883070.pl | tail -5 Rate tsk1979 DateTime Date::Calc tsk1979 339/s -- -90% -100% DateTime 3319/s 878% -- -100% Date::Calc 893673/s 263192% 26830% -- $