On 2012/09/25 21:42, Laurence Tratt wrote:
> I've put a port for sysutils/multitime into openbsd-wip [1]. From the DESCR:
>
> Unix's 'time' utility is a simple and often effective way of measuring how
> long a command takes to run ('wall time'). Unfortunately, running a command
> once can give misleading timings: the process may create a cache on its
> first
> execution, running faster subsequently; other processes may cause the
> command
> to be starved of CPU or IO time; etc. It is common to see people run 'time'
> several times and take whichever values they feel most comfortable with.
> Inevitably, this causes problems.
>
> multitime is, in essence, a simple extension to time which runs a command
> multiple times and prints the timing means, standard deviations, mins,
> medians, and maxes having done so. This can give a much better understanding
> of the command's performance.
>
> As well its more advanced features, multitime also has the advantage that it
> can be used as a drop-in replacement for /usr/bin/time. More at
> <http://tratt.net/laurie/src/multitime/>.
>
> This was developed on OpenBSD and has been heavily tested on amd64. Reports
> from other architectures, and general comments and questions are welcome!
Port is OK sthen@ if someone would like to import.
Can I recommend including the autoconf input file in the next release?
