Improved benchmarking script (I just wasn’t thinking carefully at the time, just getting something out quick; but eval is obviously better than requiring a function):
try() {
echo -e "\e[32;1m$1\e[m"
for (( run = 0; run < 5; run++ )); do
time (for (( i = 0; i < 1000; i++ )); do
eval $1
done)
done
}
try "/usr/bin/echo .dump | true"
try "echo .dump | true"
try "<<<.dump true"
try "true"
I also want to note that this is thoroughly into the nanowatt-hour scale (even at the unrealistically low figure of 1W power consumption, 300μs makes it 83⅓ nWh). Tens or hundreds of thousands of picowatt-hours!
