Re: newbie question: how to measure run-time with Sicstus under linux?

On 12 Aug 2005 09:18:07 -0700
"Paulo Moura" <pmoura@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Duncan Patton wrote:
> > On 12 Aug 2005 01:45:46 -0700
> > "Paulo Moura" <pmoura@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > With the relevance of your answer to the original question being...?!?
> >
> > "Measuring" a runtime on Linux. Without specific reference to internal
> > prolog stuff.
>
> From the SICStus Prolog on-line manual:
>
>
> http://www.sics.se/sicstus/docs/latest/html/sicstus.html/State-Info.html#State%20Info
>
> statistics(?Key,?Value)
> This allows a program to gather various execution statistics. For each
> of the possible keys Key, Value is unified with a list of values, as
> follows:
> ...
> runtime
> [since start of Prolog,since previous statistics] These refer to CPU
> time used while executing, excluding time spent garbage collecting,
> stack shifting, or in system calls. The second element is the time
> since the last call to statistics/2 with this key. It is not affected
> by calls to statistics/0.
>
> In addtion, SICStus Prolog is not open-source, so it's unlikely that
> the original post could build it itself for using with GDB.

I didn't think of that ;-) Generally I've found that I need to compare
internally generated language metrics to some external things like GDB
before I know what they mean in terms of system resource use.

Dhu


>
> Cheers,
>
> Paulo
>


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