Short: Time how long it takes to execute a command Author: Alex Carmona Uploader: AmigaOne TheWorld net (Alex Carmona) Type: util/cli Version: 1.2 Architecture: ppc-amigaos >= 4.0.0 Timer is a shell command to time how long it takes to execute a command. After the command returns, it prints the time spent by the command with a precision up to 100 microsecond (0.0001s). It could have measured the time down to 1 microsecond but even on a freshly booted system the many interrupts taking place all the time may cause delays resulting in fluctuations that make higher precision meaningless. To keep the accuracy as high as possible, Timer first makes one test run to find out how long it takes on your machine and then substracts that value from the result. The method is to simple to compensate for busy-looping applications running in the background but it should serve its purpose on very slow hardware. Usage: Timer Example: 1.RAM:> Timer/Timer Copy Timer/Timer#? RAM:Timer2 CLONE RAM:Timer2 [created] Timer_newlib..copied. Timer..copied. Timer.c..copied. Command duration: 0.0083 sec. 1.RAM:>