01-26-2010
If you want to benchmark a system, use a language with less run-time overhead like C, especially if you're just burning CPU.
As for your question: no, shells don't do multi-thread by themselves (I'm assuming you mean "shells" not "OS", since most OS use all cores anyways). Why should they. A shell is designed to interact with a user who (more or less) knows what he/she does. That they're scriptable is a nice value-adding feature.
Besides, how should the shell divine what parts of your program can run in parallel and which can't? What variables should be shared across threads? How should it avoid deadlocks? That stuff has (as of yet) to be considered by a programmer, and those can usually handle backgrounded subshells and a wait call or two.
P.S.: There is no such thing as an "overloaded CPU". A CPU can be in (almost) any state between "idle" and "completely utilized", but that's it.
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clock(3C) clock(3C)
NAME
clock() - report CPU time used
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
returns the amount of CPU time (in microseconds) used since the first call to The time reported is the sum of the user and system times of
the calling process and its terminated child processes for which it has executed , or (see wait(2) , system(3S), and popen(3S)). To deter-
mine the time in seconds, the value returned by should be divided by the value of the macro
The resolution of the clock varies, depending on the hardware and on software configuration.
If the processor time used is not available or its value cannot be represented, the function returns the value
WARNINGS
The value returned by is defined in microseconds for compatibility with systems that have CPU clocks with much higher resolution. Because
of this, the value returned wraps around after accumulating only 4295 seconds of CPU time (about 72 minutes).
DEPENDENCIES
The default clock resolution is 10 milliseconds.
SEE ALSO
times(2), wait(2), system(3S), thread_safety(5).
STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
clock(3C)