.\"return the amount of real time that occurred while evaluation an expression .TH time_expression 3 "5 Sep 1994" MudOS "LPC Library Functions" .SH NAME time_expression() - return the amount of real time that an expression took .SH SYNOPSIS int time_expression( mixed expr ); .SH DESCRIPTION Evaluate <expr>. The amount of real time that passed during the evaluation of <expr>, in microseconds, is returned. The precision of the value is not necessarily 1 microsecond; in fact, it probably is much less precise. .SH SEE ALSO rusage(3), function_profile(3), time(3)