Investigation: downsides of being generic and correct

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Fri, 17 May 2013 03:01:38 +0200
"Juan Manuel Cabo" <juanmanuel.cabo at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, 16 May 2013 at 22:58:42 UTC, 1100110 wrote:
> > On 05/16/2013 01:46 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> >> 
> >> Indeed. I had totally forgotten about that, and yet it 
> >> *should* be the
> >> first thing I think of when I think "timing a program". IMO, 
> >> that
> >> should be a standard tool in any unixy installation.
> >> 
[...]
> 
> Keep in mind that it also works in windows. Though the process 
> creation overhead is bigger in windows than in linux (because of 
> the OS). Also, you can open the source up and easily modify it to 
> measure your times directly, inside your programs.

Yea, I almost said "should be a standard tool in any OS installation",
but there's a *lot* of things that should be a standard part of any
Windows box (bash, grep, a pre-Vista GUI...) and yet never will be ;)