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Great write up from Fabien as usual.

FYI, you can also get a lot from the `time` command right now in your shell:

   /usr/bin/time -v ls
        Command being timed: "ls"
        User time (seconds): 0.00
        System time (seconds): 0.00
        Percent of CPU this job got: 100%
        Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:00.00
        Average shared text size (kbytes): 0
        Average unshared data size (kbytes): 0
        Average stack size (kbytes): 0
        Average total size (kbytes): 0
        Maximum resident set size (kbytes): 2304
        Average resident set size (kbytes): 0
        Major (requiring I/O) page faults: 0
        Minor (reclaiming a frame) page faults: 117
        Voluntary context switches: 1
        Involuntary context switches: 0
        Swaps: 0
        File system inputs: 0
        File system outputs: 0
        Socket messages sent: 0
        Socket messages received: 0
        Signals delivered: 0
        Page size (bytes): 4096
        Exit status: 0


Instead of "/usr/bin/time" you can also write "command time".


or its shorter form, \time




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