On Fri, 17 May 2013 03:01:38 +0200 "Juan Manuel Cabo" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 May 2013 at 22:58:42 UTC, 1100110 wrote: > > On 05/16/2013 01:46 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> > >> Indeed. I had totally forgotten about that, and yet it > >> *should* be the > >> first thing I think of when I think "timing a program". IMO, > >> that > >> should be a standard tool in any unixy installation. > >> [...] > > Keep in mind that it also works in windows. Though the process > creation overhead is bigger in windows than in linux (because of > the OS). Also, you can open the source up and easily modify it to > measure your times directly, inside your programs. Yea, I almost said "should be a standard tool in any OS installation", but there's a *lot* of things that should be a standard part of any Windows box (bash, grep, a pre-Vista GUI...) and yet never will be ;)
