[m-dev.] request for test cases to exercise tabling statistics

Zoltan Somogyi zs at csse.unimelb.edu.au
Wed Nov 14 17:00:39 AEDT 2007


On 14-Nov-2007, Peter Wang <novalazy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Would it be too expensive to collect the average time spent looking up
> the table for a call, and the average time spent in the body of the
> procedure?

I know it would be useful, but there is no way to collect that information
at the moment that is both (a) accurate and (b) portable, since there is no
portable way to read a nanosecond resolution clock. Which is not surprising,
since there are machines *without* nanosecond resolution clocks.

Zoltan.
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