For some benchmarks it would be nice to measure the consumed CPU time. E.g. * ibd/reindex, which could be dominated by disk/net access. * An "idle test", where bitcoind in idle mode should not consume cpu (see https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/16004) I think this can be achieved by evaluating the formatted string `(%U + %S)` from `time`.