SYD-TCK(1)                  General Commands Manual                 SYD-TCK(1)

NAME
       syd-tck - Measure runtime in Hardware Ticks

SYNOPSIS
       syd-tck {command [args...]}

DESCRIPTION
       syd-tck utility runs the given command with optional arguments and
       measures its runtime in hardware ticks, prints information about it and
       exits with the same exit code as the program or 128 plus the signal
       value if the command was terminated.

OUTPUT
           true    code:0 total:0.00s td:285 freq:2494511485Hz prec:0.40ns pid:1 tc:322191649243995

       Sample output looks like this on x86-64, below are explanations of each
       field:

       1.  The name of the command
       2.  Exit code
       3.  Total runtime in seconds
       4.  Total runtime in ticks (tick duration)
       5.  Frequency in Hertz
       6.  Precision in nanoseconds
       7.  Processor ID
       8.  Tick counter

PORTABILITY
       syd-tck only works on architectures aarch64 and x86-64.

SEE ALSO
       syd(1), syd(2), syd(5)

       syd homepage: https://sydbox.exherbolinux.org/

AUTHORS
       Maintained by Ali Polatel. Up-to-date sources can be found at
       https://gitlab.exherbo.org/sydbox/sydbox.git and bugs/patches can be
       submitted to https://gitlab.exherbo.org/groups/sydbox/-/issues. Discuss
       in #sydbox on Libera Chat.

                                  2025-02-14                        SYD-TCK(1)