Thanks for the ideas everybody! I may write up my own "timer" wrapper that uses $EPOCHREALTIME for the benchmarking. *Zach Riggle* On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 2:02 PM Bart Schaefer wrote: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 11:44 AM Roman Perepelitsa > wrote: > > > > Does this mean that `time foo` could work for functions (or rather any > > "list")? That would be nice. > > It's a bit more complicated than that; "time" with is handed fairly > deep in the exec.c call stack, with a special case for an empty list, > and actually requesting/printing the data when there is a list is > passed off to the SIGCHLD handler, so it would take a bit more > untangling than I'm going to dive into. >