Does CygWin and Windows Powershell return the approximate correct (real, user and sys) time for program, like the time command utility in Linux do?

Question

Can we calculate the (real, user and sys) time for the C program in Windows using Cygwin and Powershell, like we do in Linux using time command utility ?

Answer 1

PowerShell has a built in command that is similar to Bash's "time". It is called Measure-Command.

You can use it like this:

Measure-Command {echo ok}

The output will be:

Days              : 0
Hours             : 0
Minutes           : 0
Seconds           : 0
Milliseconds      : 0
Ticks             : 1318
TotalDays         : 1.52546296296296E-09
TotalHours        : 3.66111111111111E-08
TotalMinutes      : 2.19666666666667E-06
TotalSeconds      : 0.0001318
TotalMilliseconds : 0.1318