evan@vbox  ~  cat hi.bash
sleep .001
evan@vbox  ~  cat test.bash
#!/bin/bash
COUNTER=0
while [ $COUNTER -lt 1000 ]; do
        ./hi.bash
        let COUNTER=COUNTER+1
done
evan@vbox  ~  time ./test.bash
./test.bash  0.04s user 0.07s system 3% cpu 2.888 total