On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul+pl...@bitblocks.com> wrote:

> time ratrace -o /dev/null -c mk # about 19.67 seconds

did you want [2]>/dev/null?

> mk clean
> time mk                         # about 0.88 seconds
>
> And here I thought naming it ratrace would make it go faster.

Speed is left as an exercise for the reader.

But, if you want, you can use ratrace to trace ratrace to see how long
things take. I assume it is the cost of doing the output, but who
knows?

ron

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