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 <iustin@debian.org> wrote:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Iustin Pop <iustin@debian.org>
> >
> > * Package name : multitime
> > Version : 1.3
> > Upstream Author : Laurence Tratt <laurie@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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