On 2017-02-06 16:46:55, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > Is the subject missing a word? > > "an *extension* to time..." ?
Yes, for some reason my mailer ate the word, I corrected it in the body of the email but forgot to fix the subject. I also struggled to find a short short-description, suggestions welcome (see below for the latest attempt). thanks, iustin > On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 4:37 PM, Iustin Pop <ius...@debian.org> wrote: > > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > Owner: Iustin Pop <ius...@debian.org> > > > > * Package name : multitime > > Version : 1.3 > > Upstream Author : Laurence Tratt <lau...@tratt.net> > > * URL : http://tratt.net/laurie/src/multitime/ > > * License : BSD > > Programming Lang: C > > Description : a time-like tool which does multiple runs > > > > 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.
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