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elapsedTiming -- time a computation using time elapsed

Description

elapsedTiming e evaluates e and returns a list of type Time of the form {t,v}, where t is the number of seconds of time elapsed, and v is the value of the expression.

The default method for printing such timing results is to display the timing separately in a comment below the computed value.

i1 : elapsedTiming sleep 1

o1 = 0
     -- 9.03838 seconds

o1 : Time
i2 : peek oo

o2 = Time{9.03838, 0}

See also

For the programmer

The object elapsedTiming is a keyword.