add_profiling

Arguments

funname

A character string, the name of the function to be profiled

Description

add_profiling adds the instructions needed for the profiling of a function. Then, when this function is executed, the number of calls and the time spent, for each line, are stored. These data can be returned with the profile function.

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 — Returns the profiling results of a function
• plotprofile — Displays the profiling charts of a function
• remove_profiling — Disables the profiling of a function
• reset_profiling — Resets profiling counters of a function.

Used Functions

This function uses the Scilab functions bytecode and walkbytecode