timen
Time the execution of a script
Usage
time script ?count?
Overview
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 which indicates the average amount of time required per iteration, in microseconds. Time is measured in elapsed time, not CPU time.
Examples
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
} }
Keywords
script, time
Releases
163 releases since Mac OS X 10.0; the text changed 5 times.