time(n) Tcl Built-In Commands time(n)______________________________________________________________________________NAMEtime - Time the execution of a script
SYNOPSIStime script ?count?
_________________________________________________________________DESCRIPTION
This command will call the Tcl interpreter count times to evaluate
script (or once if count isn't specified). It will then return a
string of the form
503 microseconds per iteration
which indicates the average amount of time required per iteration, in
microseconds. Time is measured in elapsed time, not CPU time.
EXAMPLE
Estimate how long it takes for a simple Tcl for loop to count to a
thousand:
time {
for {set i 0} {$i<1000} {incr i} {
# empty body
}
}
SEE ALSOclock(n)KEYWORDS
script, timeTcltime(n)
