On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:07:17 -0700, Robert Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
wrote:

> William,
>
> Sorry for the barrage of questions, but I'm learning a lot.
>
> The time command prints the wall time it takes to do a computation. Is
> there a way (besides some kind of 'expect' hack) to get this time as a
> variable, so that, for example, I can record each time in a database?

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.  Whenever I've found a way to do it
in some system, I've made it the cputime() method of that system.
If there is a system without a cputime() command that works, you could
research into finding one for that system, and let me know.
For example, Martin Albrecht really wanted a cputime() for Macaulay2,
and couldn't find one.  It turns out there isn't one!!!  So we contacted
one of the author of M2's language (Dan Grayson) to add one, and he
very kindly added one (as of today), which will be in the next M2
package for SAGE.

William

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