The sysutils/multitime port
multitime-1.3 – time multiple executions of a command (cvsweb github mirror)
Description
Unix's 'time' utility is a simple and often effective way of measuring how
long a command takes to run ('wall time'). Unfortunately, running a command
once can give misleading timings: the process may create a cache on its first
execution, running faster subsequently; other processes may cause the command
to be starved of CPU or IO time; etc. It is common to see people run 'time'
several times and take whichever values they feel most comfortable with.
Inevitably, this causes problems.
multitime is, in essence, a simple extension to time which runs a command
multiple times and prints the timing means, standard deviations, mins,
medians, and maxes having done so. This can give a much better understanding
of the command's performance.
WWW: http://tratt.net/laurie/src/multitime/
Maintainer
Laurence Tratt
Categories
Files
- /usr/local/bin/multitime
- /usr/local/man/man1/multitime.1