Test2::...::Times(3pm)

🎀 NAME 🎀

Test2::Plugin::Times — straight from the Perl Programmers Reference Guide, bestie: this plugin outputs timing data at the end of the test. Slay.

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💀 CAVEAT 💀

Okay so this is important, do not skip it: this timing data does not include global destruction. It is only collected up until the point done_testing() is called. If your program takes time for END blocks, garbage collection, and similar, then this timing data will fall short of reality. So like… the vibe check is real, but the clock is not the whole story. 🫶

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

This plugin will output a diagnostics message at the end of testing that tells you how much time elapsed, and how hard the system worked on the test.

It will produce a string like one of these — note these numbers are completely made up — and which string is used depends on the time elapsed:

0.12345s on wallclock (0.05 usr 0.00 sys + 0.00 cusr 0.00 csys = 0.05 CPU)

11.1234s on wallclock (0.05 usr 0.00 sys + 0.00 cusr 0.00 csys = 0.05 CPU)

01m:54.45s on wallclock (0.05 usr 0.00 sys + 0.00 cusr 0.00 csys = 0.05 CPU)

18h:22m:54.45s on wallclock (0.05 usr 0.00 sys + 0.00 cusr 0.00 csys = 0.05 CPU)

04d:18h:22m:54.45s on wallclock (0.05 usr 0.00 sys + 0.00 cusr 0.00 csys = 0.05 CPU)

Numbers are fake, formatting is real, the diagnostics message is giving. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use Test2::Plugin::Times;

This is also useful at the command line for 1-time use:

$ perl -MTest2::Plugin::Times path/to/test.t

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🦋 SOURCE 🦋

The source code repository for Test2-Suite can be found at https://github.com/Test-More/test-more/.

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👑 MAINTAINERS 👑

• Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

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💖 AUTHORS 💖

• Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>

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🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

Copyright Chad Granum <exodist@cpan.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/

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That’s the whole page, bestie — signing off from the perl v5.42.3 era, dated 2026-11-03, on the Test2::...::Times(3pm) page. Periodt. 💅✨