Available in molt bench scripts only!

Defines a benchmark with the given name and description. The body is a Tcl script; it is executed count times via the time command, and records the average runtime in microseconds. The count defaults to 1000 iterations.

The name should be a symbolic name for easy searching; the description should be a brief human-readable description of the benchmark.

The following is a simple benchmark of the incr command.

benchmark incr-1.1 {incr a} {
    incr a
}