From: andy@... (Andrew Hunt)
Date: 2000-09-06T01:10:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:4794] Re: unix 'time' in Ruby?

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 09:12:39 +0200, Robert Feldt <feldt@ce.chalmers.se> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to get the actual processing time of a Ruby
> thread/script/app similar to unix 'time' command? (from inside Ruby of
> course... ;-))
> 
> bash-2.03$ time ls
> 1.4        site_ruby
> 
> real    0m0.040s
> user    0m0.040s
> sys     0m0.010s
> bash-2.03$
> 
> I'm after a os-independent way but if that's not available I guess we can
> do an extension with specific code for unix and win...

Time.times returns a Struct object with accessors for utime, stime,
cutime and cstime (that's user and system, your process and all child
processes respectively).

Enjoy!  The book will be out soon!

/\ndy


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