On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Anusha Sekar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Prof. Stein, > > I have a couple of questions about the time command. > > 1. Is it possible to output more digits, or to output in micro seconds? > 2. How do you store the output of the command as a number if you are > trying to plot time versus n for some calculation which involves n?
If you do the following: t = cputime() ... some commands... s = cputime(t) then s will contain the elapsed time between cputime calls. Similar remarks for walltime(), which is probably the most relevant timing to get (if you *minimize* over several timings). > 3. Where can I find the help document for this command? When I type > time?, I get back an error saying that time is not defined. I have > tried looking in the Sage docs as well as the python docs. For benchmarking you are probably better off using the walltime() and cputime() commands. > > Thanks > Anusha > > > -- > Make a difference! > www.ashanet.org/seattle > -- William Stein Associate Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
