In Matlab there is
"timeit(F), which measures the typical time (in seconds) required to run the function specified by the function handle F that takes no input argument."
This method returns the median of (I think 13) runs of the function.
Having looked at the methods time and timeit in Python, I can't quite find anything that will let me call from an IPython console, time my script (not function) a number of times, and return either an average or median.
Is there an easy way to do this? or at least time 1 execution, whereby I can make my own loop and average? Thanks
You may want to look at this link and consider the %timeit magic from IPython
Example:
Say you define a function you want to test:
def logtest1(N):
tr=0.
for i in xrange(N):
T= 40. + 10.*random()
tr = tr + -log(random())/T
from timeit import Timer, timeit, repeat
runningtime = repeat("logtest1(int(10e5))", setup="from __main__ import logtest1", repeat=5, number=1)
print (runningtime)
That will run my function logtest1(int(10e5)) 1 time and store the time in the list runningtime then it will repeat the same thing 5 times and store the results in the same list. You can then take the average of the median of that list.