HOWTO - measure a function execution

[Crirus]

I need to measure how long a function take to execute... or a sequence of
code within

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Ceers,
Crirus

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[One Handed Man]

Here is one 'CLUNKY' but probably fairly accurate way if the code execution
time is very small.

PSEUDO CODE
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Dim startTime, EndTime as Time
Dim x as long
Const NTIMES = 10,000 ( Depending on the length of time to perform the
function )

startTime= Now
For x=1 to NTIMES ( Depending on the length of time to perform the
unction )

Call Function

Next
EndTime= now

Display "Time to run function = " & endTime-StartTime( In Seconds ) /
NTIMES
OHM

Crirus wrote:

I need to measure how long a function take to execute... or a
sequence of code within

[Cor]

Hi Crirus,

This one I copied once from Nick (Nak)

Dim StartTick As Integer = Environment.TickCount
.................
Dim Elapsed As Integer = Environment.TickCount - StartTick

Cor

[Armin Zingler]

"Crirus" <Cr****@datagroup.ro> schrieb

I need to measure how long a function take to execute... or a
sequence of code within

You can use
Environment.Tickcount
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[Crirus]

Where I got 0 as the time elapsed what does that mean.. is lightning fast?:)

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"Cor" <no*@non.com> wrote in message
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Hi Crirus,

This one I copied once from Nick (Nak)

Dim StartTick As Integer = Environment.TickCount
.................
Dim Elapsed As Integer = Environment.TickCount - StartTick

Cor

[Cor]

Yes most things are not to measure and you have to put them in a loop

[Crirus]

Well, I'm concerning with the ones that give me 100 ticks :)

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Crirus

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"Cor" <no*@non.com> wrote in message
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Yes most things are not to measure and you have to put them in a loop

[Crirus]

I found this
sometime next statement take 0 tick and sometime take 16 ticks...why's that?

TileImage = New Bitmap(imgTranz(trans(x, i, j) - 1, x - 1))

imgTranz is an array of images 14x8
trans is an array of integers from 1 to 15

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Ceers,
Crirus

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"Cor" <no*@non.com> wrote in message
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Yes most things are not to measure and you have to put them in a loop

[One Handed Man]

For all sorts of reasons, like the machine may be busy doing other things at
the time. Thats why I suggested that you call the function over a period of
time ( thousands of calls ) then you can get the average.

But no one listens to me, perhaps I should stop posting.

OHM
Crirus wrote:

I found this
sometime next statement take 0 tick and sometime take 16
ticks...why's that?

TileImage = New Bitmap(imgTranz(trans(x, i, j) - 1, x - 1))

imgTranz is an array of images 14x8
trans is an array of integers from 1 to 15
"Cor" <no*@non.com> wrote in message
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Yes most things are not to measure and you have to put them in a loop

[Sueffel]

"One Handed Man" <Bo****@Duck.net> wrote in message
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<SNIP>

OHM is on the ball. Windows is finicky, and even if you don't have
another program running, it's always doing something. And remember, a CPU
can only handle 1 function at a time, that's why cache was invented, so
doing a bench-mark twice is not going to do anything but upset you because
it may run a 0 ticks if nothing else is going on, or 16 ticks if it had to
wait for another process so it could execute a call.
Run it 100 times, each time writing the resaults to a file, call a
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000) between each execution of the loop. It
will take 500,000 ms (about 8 1/2 minutes) to finish the benchmark, but you
will have a very accurate set of numbers. The simply open the file into
Excel or something similar, and get the average, and there is your ART
(Average RunTime) for the function. Use that number for stateting how fast
the function runs.

HTH
Suefell
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[One Handed Man]

Suffel,

Thank You!

OHM

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Sueffel wrote:

"One Handed Man" <Bo****@Duck.net> wrote in message
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<SNIP>

OHM is on the ball. Windows is finicky, and even if you don't
have another program running, it's always doing something. And
remember, a CPU can only handle 1 function at a time, that's why
cache was invented, so doing a bench-mark twice is not going to do
anything but upset you because it may run a 0 ticks if nothing else
is going on, or 16 ticks if it had to wait for another process so it
could execute a call. Run it 100 times, each time writing the
resaults to a file, call a System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000)
between each execution of the loop. It will take 500,000 ms (about 8
1/2 minutes) to finish the benchmark, but you will have a very
accurate set of numbers. The simply open the file into Excel or
something similar, and get the average, and there is your ART
(Average RunTime) for the function. Use that number for stateting
how fast the function runs.

HTH
Suefell
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[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

* "Crirus" <Cr****@datagroup.ro> scripsit:

I need to measure how long a function take to execute... or a sequence of
code within

<http://www.mentalis.org/soft/class.qpx?id=8>

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Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

[Russ Bishop]

In addition, timer resolution is only good for about 15 ticks anyway, so a
method that takes 8 ticks to execute may actually just return 0.

-- russ

"Crirus" <Cr****@datagroup.ro> wrote in message
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I found this
sometime next statement take 0 tick and sometime take 16 ticks...why's that?
TileImage = New Bitmap(imgTranz(trans(x, i, j) - 1, x - 1))

imgTranz is an array of images 14x8
trans is an array of integers from 1 to 15

--
Ceers,
Crirus

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If work were a good thing, the boss would take it all from you

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"Cor" <no*@non.com> wrote in message
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Yes most things are not to measure and you have to put them in a loop