add_profiling

Arguments

funname

A character string, the name of the function

Description

add_profiling(funname) Adds profiling instructions to the function named funname. Then when this function is run the number of calls, the time spent is stored for each function line.

Examples

function x=foo(a, n)
 x=0;
 for i=1:n
   if x<10 then
     x=x+a
   else
     x=x+1
   end  
 end
 x=x^2+1
endfunction

add_profiling("foo")
foo(0.1,100) //run the function
profile(foo) //extract profile information

See Also

• profile — extract execution profiles of a Scilab function
• plotprofile — extracts and displays execution profiles of a Scilab function
• remove_profiling — Removes profiling instructions toout of a function.
• reset_profiling — Resets profiling counters of a function.

Used Functions

This function uses the Scilab functions bytecode and walkbytecode