you mean like
	time(2)
??

$ time ls 
 <stuff>

real    0m0.041s
user    0m0.030s
sys     0m0.010s


Andy

> How do I get the most accurate timing of a program execution.
> 
> Is there something like this:
> 
> start timer
> excute long program
> stop timer
> print timer 
> 
> ?
> 
>