iPython Cookbook - timing execution

Timing function execution using decorators

We here define a decorator that at the beginning of the execution remembers the time, and at the end of the exexution prints the time elapse. Note that this is wallclock time, not process time, so it will depend on what else is going on at that moment source



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import time

def time_usage(func):
    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
        beg_ts = time.time ()
        func(*args, **kwargs)
        end_ts = time.time ()
        print("elapsed time: %f" % (end_ts - beg_ts))
    return wrapper

To always time execution of a function, just add the decorator to its definition...



In [2]:

    
@time_usage
def test():
    for i in range(0, 100000):
        pass

...and whenever the function is run it will print the time spent in it



In [3]:

    
test()









    



elapsed time: 0.007669

Timing code segments

This function remembers the time when it is called in a closure, and returns a function that allows to read it out.



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import time
def new_timer(id=''):
    beg_ts = time.time ()
    
    def finish():
        end_ts = time.time ()
        print("%s elapsed time: %f" % (id, end_ts - beg_ts))
        return end_ts - beg_ts

    return finish

The way it works is as follows



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mytimer = new_timer('TIMERID')
for i in range(0, 100000):
    pass
mytimer()









    



TIMERID elapsed time: 0.010734






    Out[5]:





0.010734081268310547

Timing snippets using `timeit`

For timing the execution time of snippets - eg to compare different ways of programming the same thing - there is a function called timeit in the eponymous module source



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import timeit
timeit.timeit('"-".join(str(n) for n in range(100))', number=10000)









    Out[6]:





0.5182996969670057



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timeit.timeit('"-".join([str(n) for n in range(100)])', number=10000)









    Out[7]:





0.44942053698468953



In [8]:

    
timeit.timeit('"-".join(map(str, range(100)))', number=10000)









    Out[8]:





0.3215365270152688

Licence and version



In [9]:

    
import sys
print(sys.version)









    



3.4.0 (default, Apr 11 2014, 13:05:11) 
[GCC 4.8.2]

iPython Cookbook - timing execution

Timing function execution using decorators

Timing code segments

Timing snippets using timeit

Licence and version

Timing snippets using `timeit`