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'\" $Header: /user6/ouster/tcl/man/RCS/time.n,v 1.1 93/06/16 16:48:29 ouster Exp $ SPRITE (Berkeley)
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.so man.macros
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.HS time tcl
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.BS
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'\" Note: do not modify the .SH NAME line immediately below!
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.SH NAME
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time \- Time the execution of a script
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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\fBtime \fIscript\fR ?\fIcount\fR?
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.BE
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.PP
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This command will call the Tcl interpreter \fIcount\fR
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times to evaluate \fIscript\fR (or once if \fIcount\fR isn't
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specified). It will then return a string of the form
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.DS
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\fB503 microseconds per iteration\fR
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.DE
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which indicates the average amount of time required per iteration,
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in microseconds.
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Time is measured in elapsed time, not CPU time.
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.SH KEYWORDS
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script, time
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