SYD-TCK(1)

📦 version 3.51.2, in nixos 26.05

💅 syd-tck

okay so bestie, this is a page from the General Commands Manual and it's all about syd-tck, which is genuinely the most "let me just check something real quick" little tool ever. She measures runtime in hardware ticks. That's it. That's the whole vibe.

✨ NAME ✨

syd-tck — measure runtime in Hardware Ticks 🕰️

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

syd-tck {command [args...]}

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the deal, bestie: syd-tck runs whatever command you hand it, with all the optional arguments you feel like passing along, and then it measures how long that thing took in hardware ticks. Cute, right? Then it prints the info and dips.

And the exit situation? Iconic behaviour honestly: it exits with the same exit code as the program, or 128 plus the signal value if the command got terminated. No cap, it just passes the whole thing through. 🫶

🔥 OUTPUT 🔥

   true    code:0 total:0.00s td:285 freq:2494511485Hz prec:0.40ns pid:1 tc:322191649243995

That's what the sample output looks like on x86-64 — and here's the breakdown of every single field so you're not sitting there squinting at it 🧚:

  1. The name of the command
  2. Exit code
  3. Total runtime in seconds
  4. Total runtime in ticks (tick duration)
  5. Frequency in Hertz
  6. Precision in nanoseconds
  7. Processor ID
  8. Tick counter

🌈 PORTABILITY 🌈

Real talk: syd-tck only works on the aarch64 and x86-64 architectures. If you're on something else, sorry bestie, she's not showing up 💀

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

syd homepage: https://sydbox.exherbo.org/ 🌸

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Maintained by Ali Polatel. Up-to-date sources can be found at https://gitlab.exherbo.org/sydbox/sydbox.git and bugs/patches can be submitted to https://gitlab.exherbo.org/groups/sydbox/-/issues. Discuss in #sydbox on Libera Chat or in #sydbox:mailstation.de on Matrix. Go say hi, they don't bite 🫶

okay that's the whole page, mwah 💋 — this was the General Commands Manual entry for syd-tck, dated 1980-01-01. periodt. ⭐

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