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time(n) | Tcl Built-In Commands | time(n) |
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 is not specified). It will then return a string of the form
503 microseconds per iteration
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 ALSO¶
KEYWORDS¶
script, time
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