OT: ptime [WAS: Re: stdio performance in tango, stdlib, and perl]

[Sean Kelly]

Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
> 
> I passed a 31 MB text file (containing a dictionary that I'm using in my 
> research) through each of the programs above. The output was set to 
> /dev/null. I've ran the same program multiple times before the actual 
> test, so everything is cached and the process becomes 
> computationally-bound. Here are the results summed for 10 consecutive 
> runs (averaged over 5 epochs):
> 
> 13.9s        Tango
> 6.6s        Perl
> 5.0s        std.stdio

For what it's worth, I created a Win32 version of the Unix 'time' 
command recently.  Not too complicated, but if anyone is interested, I 
have it here: http://www.invisibleduck.org/~sean/tmp/ptime.zip  It's a 
quick and dirty implementation, but works for how I typically use it.