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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

time (1t)

Name

time - Time the execution of a script

Synopsis

time script ?count?

Description

time(1t)                     Tcl Built-In Commands                    time(1t)



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NAME
       time - Time the execution of a script

SYNOPSIS
       time script ?count?
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DESCRIPTION
       This  command  will  call  the  Tcl interpreter count times to evaluate
       script (or once if count is not specified).   It  will  then  return  a
       string of the form

              503.2 microseconds per iteration

       which  indicates  the average amount of time required per iteration, in
       microseconds.  Time is measured in elapsed time, not CPU time.

EXAMPLE
       Estimate how long it takes for a simple Tcl for  loop  to  count  to  a
       thousand:

              time {
                  for {set i 0} {$i<1000} {incr i} {
                      # empty body
                  }
              }


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | runtime/tcl-8    |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
       +---------------+------------------+

SEE ALSO
       clock(n)

KEYWORDS
       script, time



NOTES
       Source  code  for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This     software     was    built    from    source    available    at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.   The  original   community
       source was downloaded from  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tcl-
       core8.6.7-src.tar.gz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at https://www.tcl.tk/.



Tcl                                                                   time(1t)