From: Peter Stephenson <p.w.stephenson@ntlworld.com>
To: zsh-workers@zsh.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Millisecond and microsecond specifiers for TIMEFMT
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:01:52 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171213180152.0af7a27f@ntlworld.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6A9332CC-D501-4B1C-9347-92D0E87E45D7@dana.is>
On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:58:41 -0600
dana <dana@dana.is> wrote:
> I am often interested in getting sub-second-precision timing on shell
> commands, but the `time` built-in doesn't offer this (not really,
> anyway). I can kind of work around it by writing a function that
> fiddles with SECONDS, but my function doesn't have the fancy syntax
> support that `time` has, which makes it inconvenient for measuring
> some things.
You don't need to fiddle with SECONDS beyond turning it into floating
point,
typeset -F SECONDS
at which point it's just a question of subtraction, which isn't usually
regarded as particularly problematic.
> What i'd really like is if TIMEFMT supported sequences for milliseconds and
> microseconds.
>
> I had a look and it really does seem quite simple to implement. How would you
> feel about something like the change below?
Can't see any obvious problem with this. Just needs documenting.
pws
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-13 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-12 1:58 dana
2017-12-13 18:01 ` Peter Stephenson [this message]
2017-12-14 2:49 ` dana
2017-12-14 10:01 ` Teubel György
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