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- ===== NOSview [137]
- watch
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- watch [on|off] Default: off
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- The 'watch' command displays the current software stopwatch
- values, with min and max readings for each. This facility allows
- a programmer to measure the execution time of critical sections
- of code with microsecond resolution.
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- This command is supported only on the IBM PC, and the meaning of
- each stopwatch value depends on where the calls have been
- inserted for test purposes; the distribution copy of NOS usually
- has no stopwatch calls.
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- [With some machines it may be essential to keep 'watch' turned
- off, as there are unwanted side effects if it is turned on. For
- example, it makes the PC emulator in the Archimedes machine
- beep!].
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