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- .so man.macros
- .HS time tcl
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- .SH NAME
- time \- Time the execution of a script
- .SH SYNOPSIS
- \fBtime \fIscript\fR ?\fIcount\fR?
- .BE
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- .SH DESCRIPTION
- .PP
- This command will call the Tcl interpreter \fIcount\fR
- times to evaluate \fIscript\fR (or once if \fIcount\fR isn't
- specified). It will then return a string of the form
- .DS
- \fB503 microseconds per iteration\fR
- .DE
- which indicates the average amount of time required per iteration,
- in microseconds.
- Time is measured in elapsed time, not CPU time.
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- .SH KEYWORDS
- script, time
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