mirror of
https://git.FreeBSD.org/src.git
synced 2024-12-11 09:50:12 +00:00
34 lines
934 B
Plaintext
34 lines
934 B
Plaintext
'\"
|
|
'\" Copyright (c) 1993 The Regents of the University of California.
|
|
'\" Copyright (c) 1994-1996 Sun Microsystems, Inc.
|
|
'\"
|
|
'\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution
|
|
'\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
|
|
'\"
|
|
'\" SCCS: @(#) time.n 1.6 96/03/25 20:25:30
|
|
'\"
|
|
.so man.macros
|
|
.TH time n "" Tcl "Tcl Built-In Commands"
|
|
.BS
|
|
'\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below!
|
|
.SH NAME
|
|
time \- Time the execution of a script
|
|
.SH SYNOPSIS
|
|
\fBtime \fIscript\fR ?\fIcount\fR?
|
|
.BE
|
|
|
|
.SH DESCRIPTION
|
|
.PP
|
|
This command will call the Tcl interpreter \fIcount\fR
|
|
times to evaluate \fIscript\fR (or once if \fIcount\fR isn't
|
|
specified). It will then return a string of the form
|
|
.CS
|
|
\fB503 microseconds per iteration\fR
|
|
.CE
|
|
which indicates the average amount of time required per iteration,
|
|
in microseconds.
|
|
Time is measured in elapsed time, not CPU time.
|
|
|
|
.SH KEYWORDS
|
|
script, time
|