TIMER
Compute Elapsed Time

WTIME is a PYTHON library which examines methods for computing the elapsed CPU time of a part of a calculation.

In PYTHON, CPU time can be read using the clock() function from the time module:

        from time import clock

        t1 = clock ( )
        carry out operations to be timed
        t2 = clock ( ) - t1
        print 'Operations completed after %g seconds' % ( t2 )
      

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the GNU LGPL license.

Languages:

TIMER is available in a C version and a C++ version and a FORTRAN90 version and a MATLAB version and a Python version.

Related Data and Programs:

TIMESTAMP, a PYTHON library which displays the current wall clock time.

WTIME, a PYTHON library which returns a reading of the wall clock time in seconds.

Source Code:

• timestamp.py, prints the current YMDHMS date as a timestamp.

Examples and Tests:

• timer_test.py, a sample calling program.
• timer_test.sh, BASH commands to run the sample calling program.
• timer_test.txt, the output file.
• timer_test01.py, uses clock() to time the numpy.random.random_sample() function.
• timer_test02.py, uses time() to time the numpy.random.random_sample() function.

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