Source: multitime Section: utils Priority: optional Maintainer: Iustin Pop Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Standards-Version: 4.5.1 Homepage: https://tratt.net/laurie/src/multitime/ Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/multitime.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/multitime Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: multitime Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: 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.