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Subject: Re: cputime in UNSW prolog?
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Date: Mon, 7-Jul-86 14:39:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  7 14:39:00 1986
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UNSW has an undocumented predicate, "time." Give the interpreter the
command		time!		and all future queries will be executed
(if I recall correctly) 100 times, followed by the time this took,
the number of calls to "unify," and the "number of procedure calls executed
per second."  Yeah, it's not as good as having a real "cputime."  I wonder
if the "system" or "sh" predicates could be used to call a system timer;
barring that, the UNSW source is modular, if poorly commented, and one could
probably hack it a bit.

Mark Gooley, CSG,CSL,UIUC. (seismo;ihnp4;pur-ee;convex)!uiucdcs!uicsl!gooley