Problem Statement

Write a program which uses a timer (with the least granularity available on your system) to time how long a function takes to execute. Whenever possible, use methods which measure only the processing time used by the current process; instead of the difference in system time between start and finish, which could include time used by other processes on the computer. This task is intended as a subtask for Measure relative performance of sorting algorithms implementations.

Let's start with the solution:

benchmark [
    print "starting function"
    pause 2000
    print "function ended"
]