---
title: "hyperfine"
category: "Developer tools"
tagline: "Benchmark shell commands and compare how fast they run, with statistics."
source: "pacman"
package: "hyperfine"
command: "hyperfine"
code: "https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine"
---

## What it is

hyperfine times commands. It runs each one many times, after warm-up runs, and reports the mean, spread and range, so you can tell whether one version of a script or a build setting is really faster than another. It can export results as Markdown, JSON or CSV.

## Why it's here

- **Real numbers.** Repeated runs and statistics instead of a single `time`.
- **Side-by-side comparisons.** Give it several commands and it says which is fastest, and by how much.

## On CoreDesktop

hyperfine is installed from pacman. `update` keeps it current with the rest of the pacman packages.

```
hyperfine 'grep -r foo .' 'rg foo'
```