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That level of instrumentation is not build into the client libraries. rostopic works by subscribing to the topics. Depending on your system that sort of measurement will be overly burdensome for all topics. This is hopefully a feature we can integrate into ROS 2.0. When we begin brainstorming use cases please bring this up for that.

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