| When you want to find out how long a particular piece of code is taking
to execute there are a few ways to go about it. You can use the new Profiling Option in
PowerBuilder 6, but call me old fashioned I still like to use the simpler method described
below. PowerBuilder is a very rich product and quite often there are many ways of
achieving the same thing (EG: GetItem, Dot notation) so when I'm making a decision about
which way to perform a task I quite often what to know which way will perform the best.
To do this try to isolate the block of code into a separate object or window, then I
setup a loop that executes the code many times in a loop, just executing the code once is
not accurate enough, I normally execute it between 100 - 1000 times depending on the
length of time required to perform the task.
One way to time the execution is to use a time variable and get the time either side of
the loop, but when you are dealing with fast executing script where you want to be more
accurate than a second you can make use of the CPU() command.
The Cpu returns the number of milliseconds since your PowerBuilder application started
executing. So by grabbing this time either side of the loop you will get a more accurate
reading of how long something takes. This is also very good when you cannot isolate a
block of code to be run in a loop.
Example:
Long ll_StartCpu, ll_EndCpu, ll_I
ll_StartCpu = Cpu()
FOR ll_I = 1 TO 100
...
your code
...
NEXT
ll_EndCpu = Cpu()
MessageBox( "Code Took", ll_EndCpu - ll_StartCpu )
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