diff --git a/.idea/.gitignore b/.idea/.gitignore
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+++ b/.idea/.gitignore
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+# Default ignored files
+/workspace.xml
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/.idea/benchmark-openMP.iml b/.idea/benchmark-openMP.iml
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+++ b/.idea/benchmark-openMP.iml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<module type="CPP_MODULE" version="4">
+  <component name="NewModuleRootManager">
+    <content url="file://$MODULE_DIR$" />
+    <orderEntry type="inheritedJdk" />
+    <orderEntry type="sourceFolder" forTests="false" />
+  </component>
+</module>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
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+++ b/Makefile
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+all: main
+
+main:
+	gcc -std=c11 -Wall  -o run main.c
diff --git a/main.c b/main.c
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+++ b/main.c
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+#define _POSIX_C_SOURCE 199309L
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <inttypes.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+#include <time.h>
+#include <argp.h>
+
+const char *argp_program_version =
+        "benchmark  0.1";
+/* Program documentation. */
+static char doc[] =
+        "I wonder for what this is";
+
+static struct argp_option options[] = {
+        {"verbose",  'v', 0,      0,  "Produce verbose output" },
+        {"quiet",    'q', 0,      0,  "Don't produce any output" },
+        {"iterations",   'i', "NUMBER", 0, "Number of iterations" },
+        {"output",   'o', "file", 0, "output to file instead of stdout" },
+        {"reps",   'r', "NUMBER", 0, "number of repetions in each iteration" },
+        {"operation",   'O', "name", 0, "operation e.g. mul, add. ..." },
+        {"numThreads",   'n', "NUMBER", 0, "specifies number of threads to be used. Default is num of logical cpus" },
+        { 0 }
+};
+struct arguments
+{
+    int silent, verbose, numThreads;
+    int use_output_file;
+    char *output_file;
+    char *operation;
+    size_t iterations, reps_per_iteration;
+};
+/* parse a single option. */
+static error_t
+parse_opt (int key, char *arg, struct argp_state *state)
+{
+    /* get the input argument from argp_parse, which we
+       know is a pointer to our arguments structure. */
+    struct arguments *arguments = state->input;
+
+    switch (key)
+    {
+        case 'q': case 's':
+            arguments->silent = 1;
+            break;
+        case 'v':
+            arguments->verbose = 1;
+            break;
+        case 'o':
+            arguments->output_file = arg;
+            arguments->use_output_file = 1;
+            break;
+        case 'O':
+            arguments->operation = arg;
+            break;
+        case 'n':
+            arguments->numThreads = strtol(arg,NULL,10);
+            break;
+	case 'i':
+	    arguments->iterations = strtol(arg,NULL,10);//todo error handling
+	    break;
+	case 'r': 
+	    arguments->reps_per_iteration = strtol(arg,NULL,10);//todo error handling
+	    break;
+        case ARGP_KEY_ARG:
+            argp_usage (state);
+            break;
+        default:
+            return ARGP_ERR_UNKNOWN;
+    }
+    return 0;
+}
+
+/* our argp parser. */
+static struct argp argp = { options, parse_opt, 0 , doc };
+//parsing args set up end---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+clock_t ticks, new_ticks;
+struct timespec t1, t2;
+int main(int argc, char **argv) {
+    //parsing args----------------------------------------------------------------
+    struct arguments arguments;
+
+    /* default values. */
+    arguments.silent = 0;
+    arguments.verbose = 0;
+    arguments.reps_per_iteration = 100;
+    arguments.iterations = 100;
+    arguments.output_file = "-";
+    arguments.operation = "mul";
+    arguments.numThreads = 1;
+
+    argp_parse (&argp, argc, argv, 0, 0, &arguments);
+    //parsing args end---------------------------------------------------------------
+    long * n_times = malloc(arguments.iterations  * sizeof(long));
+
+    float f2 = (float) arguments.iterations + 1.1; //avoid compiler optimization, because iterations is unknown for compiler
+    float f1 = 1.1f;
+    //iterate
+    for (size_t j = 0; j < arguments.iterations ; j++){
+        f2 = (float) arguments.iterations + 0.1 + j;
+        clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &t1);
+        printf("time: %i\t", t1.tv_nsec);
+        for (size_t i = 0 ; i < arguments.reps_per_iteration; i++){
+            f1 = f2 * 1.1f;
+        }
+        clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &t2);
+        n_times[j] = t2.tv_nsec - t1.tv_nsec;
+
+
+    }
+    //printf("Number = %f\n", f1);
+
+    for ( size_t i = 0 ; i < arguments.iterations; i++){
+        printf("%d\t", n_times[i]);
+    }
+    printf("\n");
+
+
+
+}
+