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From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: is there a emacs lisp timing command?
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:07:20 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dd16824-e521-4b36-a258-7e7f1d6bfbe2@f1g2000prb.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.3921.1237926315.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Mar 24, 1:25 pm, Nikolaj Schumacher <m...@nschum.de> wrote:
> Xah Lee <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > is there a elisp command like timing, that returns the time a function
> > took?
>
> Seems like everybody here has written their own, but Emacs does come with:
> benchmark-run and benchmark-run-compiled.
>
> It takes garbage collection into account, which can explain fluctuating
> results.

Thank you all for the help.

After reading the replies, it turns out my error was that i mistook
microsecond to be 10^-3 but it should be 10^-6.

Thanks Nik for the benchmark-run. That'll be helpful too, and the elp
profiler down the road.

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-03-24 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-24  1:57 is there a emacs lisp timing command? Xah Lee
2009-03-24  6:12 ` thierry.volpiatto
2009-03-24  6:35   ` thierry.volpiatto
2009-03-24  6:46     ` thierry.volpiatto
2009-03-24  7:30 ` Helmut Eller
2009-03-24  8:11   ` thierry.volpiatto
2009-03-24 10:05 ` David Kastrup
2009-03-24 20:25 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
     [not found] ` <mailman.3921.1237926315.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-03-24 22:07   ` Xah Lee [this message]

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