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NAME

time − Time the execution of a script

SYNOPSIS

time 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.

SEE ALSO

clock(n)

KEYWORDS

script, time