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time -- time a computation

Synopsis

Description

time e evaluates e, prints the amount of cpu time used, and returns the value of e. The time used by the the current thread and garbage collection during the evaluation of e is also shown.
i1 : time 3^30
 -- used 1.248e-05s (cpu); 5.53e-06s (thread); 0s (gc)

o1 = 205891132094649

See also

For the programmer

The object time is a keyword.