NAME

syd-tck - Measure runtime in Hardware Ticks

SYNOPSIS

syd-tck {command [args...]}

DESCRIPTION

syd-tck utility runs the given command with optional arguments and measures its runtime in hardware ticks, prints information about it and exits with the same exit code as the program or 128 plus the signal value if the command was terminated.

OUTPUT

true    code:0 total:0.00s td:285 freq:2494511485Hz prec:0.40ns pid:1 tc:322191649243995

Sample output looks like this on x86-64, below are explanations of each field:

1.: The name of the command
2.: Exit code
3.: Total runtime in seconds
4.: Total runtime in ticks (tick duration)
5.: Frequency in Hertz
6.: Precision in nanoseconds
7.: Processor ID
8.: Tick counter

PORTABILITY

syd-tck only works on architectures aarch64 and x86-64.

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