Add measurement script and document to track progress

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mtime.sh b/mtime.sh
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/mtime.sh
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+#!/bin/bash
+
+TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/mtime.XXXXXX` || exit 1
+
+for x in {1..100}
+do
+  gtime -f "real %e user %U sys %S" -a -o $TMPFILE "$@"
+  #tail -1 $TMPFILE
+done
+
+awk '{ et += $2; ut += $4; st += $6; count++ } END {  printf "%d iterations\n", count ; printf "average: real %.3f user %.3f sys %.3f\n", et/count, ut/count, st/count }' $TMPFILE
+
+rm $TMPFILE
+