time(3tcl)

✨ time — the manual, bestie edition ✨

okay so this is time(3tcl) from the Tcl Built-In Commands crew 💅 she's short, she's sweet, she's literally the stopwatch of your Tcl era 🎀

💖 NAME 💖

time — she times the execution of a script ⏱️✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

time script ?count?

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea 🫖 — this command calls the Tcl interpreter count times to evaluate script. and if you didn't give her a count? she just does it once, nbd 🙈

then she hands you back a string that looks exactly like this:

503.2 microseconds per iteration

and that lil string is telling you the average amount of time each iteration needed, measured in microseconds ⭐

lowkey important: time here is measured in elapsed time, not CPU time 👑 like, it's the wall-clock vibe, the real "how long did this actually take" energy, not how much processor juice got sipped 🧃

🎀 EXAMPLE 🎀

say you wanna estimate how long it takes for a simple Tcl for loop to count to a thousand — iconic curiosity, love that for you 💜:

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

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• clock(3tcl)

💅 KEYWORDS 💅

script, time

and that's the whole page, fr fr 🍓 go forth and benchmark your little scripts, main character 🧚

source/version: this one's from Tcl (time(3tcl)) — mwah, slay, periodt 💖✨