AMTime, a simple GNU 'time' alternative
 

Today i tried to benchmark some project of mine with the Amiga version of the GNU

time

program (v1.7 from AmiNET), but after installed

ixemul.library

,

mathieeedoubbas.library

and

mathieeedoubtrans.library

and it still did not work, i got fed up and i wrote a simple alternative for myself, but i thought i could share it.

It does exactly the same and works exactly the same way as GNU

time

: you call it with the executable's name and it's arguments and then it executes it in a shell (with

Execute()

under KS 1.3 and with

SystemTagList()

under 2.0+) and measures the elapsed time during the call.

However, keep in mind, that this is a simple alternative, it does nothing fancy, like GNU

time

do; it does not separate the elapsed time into groups, nor it does measure CPU usage. It just measures the time spent during the shell call.

I have built the binaries with bebbo's Amiga-GCC. While SASC creates a bit (8-10 kB) smaller and faster binaries, i do not know how to switch between targeting KickStart 1.3 and 2.0+ in SASC and i was lazy to read all the manuals.
Also, the source is released as PD, so anybody can compile it with SASC if he wants. (Source portability is tested.) The

AOS1X

macro needs to be defined if somebody wants to compile it for KickStart 1.3.

Have fun and report bugs please.

Download links:

AMTime v1.0.0, KickStart 1.3/68020 version
AMTime v1.0.0, KickStart 1.3/68000 version
AMTime v1.0.0, KickStart 2.0+/68020 version
AMTime v1.0.0, KickStart 2.0+/68000 version
AMTime v1.0.0 source

Version 1.0.1 is out:
- The final subtraction was done on 32-bit, thus if the difference was greater than 35 minutes, 47 seconds and 483647 microseconds, then overflow has occurred and erroneous values had been reported. Fixed and to improve readibility it reports seconds and microseconds separatedly.
- Some minor internal changes.

Download links:

AMTime v1.0.1, AmigaOS 1.3/68020 version
AMTime v1.0.1, AmigaOS 1.3/68000 version
AMTime v1.0.1, AmigaOS 2.0+/68020 version
AMTime v1.0.1, AmigaOS 2.0+/68000 version
AMTime v1.0.1 source