Bruno Haible <[email protected]> writes:

> Collin Funk wrote:
>> > https://gitlab.com/ghwiki/gnow-how/-/wikis/Profiling/with_sampling
>> 
>> Not really related to the current discussion, but you may want to add an
>> example of 'perf stat' to that page. I have used it many times when
>> testing changes in Coreutils, the posix_spawn changes are an example [1].
>
> Well, measuring the execution time of a command is not profiling. That
> wiki page about profiling is about measuring which parts of a program are
> slow.

True.

>> I especially like the '--repeat <COUNT>' option, to compare the average
>> of multiple invocations of the command, instead of assuming a single run
>> is representitive of the norm.
>
> That's a good point. I use 'time' for measuring the execution time of a 
> command.
> I agree that a '--repeat <COUNT>' option would make sense. Registered
> <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?67800> for this purpose.

Is GNU time still maintained? I see it hasn't had a commit in 4 years
and still uses K&R declarations.

Collin

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