With a big emphasis on occasionally, borderline never. Feel free to close this and consider it as just informative, since there isn't much to fix.
This is on Android 2.3.3, on relatively old hardware (armv7 1024 MHz processor, 300MB RAM), perl 5.19.9 (blead as of yesterday). The test file looks simple enough, so it's probably the alarm() firing off too quickly/too late on this processor.
With a big emphasis on occasionally, borderline never. Feel free to close this and consider it as just informative, since there isn't much to fix.
This is on Android 2.3.3, on relatively old hardware (armv7 1024 MHz processor, 300MB RAM), perl 5.19.9 (blead as of yesterday). The test file looks simple enough, so it's probably the alarm() firing off too quickly/too late on this processor.