time(1T) Tcl Built-In Commands time(1T) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ NAME time - Time the execution of a script SYNOPSIS time script ?count? _________________________________________________________________ DESCRIPTION This command will call the Tcl interpreter count times to evaluate script (or once if count isn't specified). It will then return a string of the form 503 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 } } SEE ALSO clock(1T) KEYWORDS script, time ATTRIBUTES See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWTcl | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Uncommitted | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES Source for Tcl is available on http://opensolaris.org. Tcl time(1T)