Is any way to time (measure) the compiling time?

stimpak · Post by **stimpak** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 3:51 am

I was compiling wine from latest git, and since wine is so huge, it takes awfully lot of time, around 20mins or so. Not that im complaining, but it made me wondering how much time my computer needs to compile it and if I could somehow time it. - I could use a timer, but that beats the reason i own a computer in the first place

Surprisingly Google didn't provided with anything useful, so anyone has any suggestions or ideas i could try?

cheers

PleegWat · Post by **PleegWat** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:21 am

stimpak wrote:

I was compiling wine from latest git, and since wine is so huge, it takes awfully lot of time, around 20mins or so. Not that im complaining, but it made me wondering how much time my computer needs to compile it and if I could somehow time it. - I could use a timer, but that beats the reason i own a computer in the first place

Surprisingly Google didn't provided with anything useful, so anyone has any suggestions or ideas i could try?

cheers

use the 'time' command:

$ time make
<lots of make output>

real 0m40.541s
user 0m7.612s
sys 0m2.320s

This means that this make (idle run, didn't have new sources to compile)
took 40 seconds of wallclock time, 7.6 seconds of CPU time in userspace,
and 2.3 seconds of CPU time in kernel space.

Note time is a bash builtin, if you want to use the features described
in 'man time' you'll have to call /usr/bin/time explicitly.

Gert van den Berg · Post by **Gert van den Berg** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 4:23 am

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:51, stimpak<[email protected]> wrote:

I was compiling wine from latest git, and since wine is so huge, it takes awfully lot of time, around 20mins or so. Not that im complaining, but it made me wondering how much time my computer needs to compile it and if I could somehow time it. - I could use a timer, but that beats the reason i own a computer in the first place

Surprisingly Google didn't provided with anything useful, so anyone has any suggestions or ideas i could try?

time make

(see "help time" for info (on bash at least))

Martin Gregorie · Post by **Martin Gregorie** » Sat Jun 27, 2009 5:11 am

On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 03:51 -0500, stimpak wrote:

I was compiling wine from latest git, and since wine is so huge, it
takes awfully lot of time, around 20mins or so. Not that im
complaining, but it made me wondering how much time my computer needs
to compile it and if I could somehow time it. - I could use a timer,
but that beats the reason i own a computer in the first place

$ time make all

Time runs whatever command follows it on the line. It reports the
elapsed time and the cpu time used.

Martin