Forum: Ruby display computation time in IRB

Is there an easy way to display the time it takes to compute any
function from within IRB?

Jason Lillywhite wrote:
> Is there an easy way to display the time it takes to compute any
> function from within IRB?


If I understand correctly, there is the Benchmark module

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/benchmark/rdoc/classes/Benchmark.html


>> require 'benchmark'
=> true
>> Benchmark.bmbm do |x|
?> x.report('concat') {s='t ';(1..10000).step do |x| s.concat(x.to_s) 
end}
?> x.report('<<') {s='t ';(1..10000).step do |x| s << x.to_s end}
>> end
Rehearsal ------------------------------------------
concat   0.010000   0.000000   0.010000 (  0.008603)
<<       0.010000   0.000000   0.010000 (  0.007354)
--------------------------------- total: 0.020000sec

             user     system      total        real
concat   0.000000   0.000000   0.000000 (  0.006930)
<<       0.010000   0.000000   0.010000 (  0.007101)

yes, that is what I wanted. I just didn't know how to ask for it.

Thanks.

On Mar 20, 10:18 am, Jason Lillywhite <jason.lillywh...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Is there an easy way to display the time it takes to compute any
> function from within IRB?
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

It's not unheard of for people to add something like this to their
irbrc:

  def time
    start = Time.now
    result = yield
    puts "Completed in #{Time.now - start} seconds."
    result
  end

In use:

  016:0> time { ('a'*10_000_000).sub(/a+/,'hi') }
  Completed in 0.446504 seconds.
  "hi"

HTH,
Chris

Chris Shea wrote:
>   def time
>   "hi"
> 
> HTH,
> Chris
> 

Or something like this:

irb(main):005:0> def time
irb(main):006:1>   start = Process.times.inject{|s,x|s+x}
irb(main):007:1>   result = yield
irb(main):008:1>   finish = Process.times.inject{|s,x|s+x}
irb(main):009:1>   puts "Completed in #{finish - start} cpu seconds"
irb(main):010:1>   result
irb(main):011:1> end
=> nil
irb(main):012:0> time {sleep 1}
Completed in 0.0 cpu seconds
=> 1
irb(main):013:0> time {1000000.times {1.23**42}}
Completed in 0.57 cpu seconds
=> 1000000