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1#! /usr/bin/env python
2
3"""Tool for measuring execution time of small code snippets.
4
5This module avoids a number of common traps for measuring execution
6times. See also Tim Peters' introduction to the Algorithms chapter in
7the Python Cookbook, published by O'Reilly.
8
9Library usage: see the Timer class.
10
11Command line usage:
12 python timeit.py [-n N] [-r N] [-s S] [-t] [-c] [-h] [statement]
13
14Options:
15 -n/--number N: how many times to execute 'statement' (default: see below)
16 -r/--repeat N: how many times to repeat the timer (default 3)
17 -s/--setup S: statement to be executed once initially (default 'pass')
18 -t/--time: use time.time() (default on Unix)
19 -c/--clock: use time.clock() (default on Windows)
20 -v/--verbose: print raw timing results; repeat for more digits precision
21 -h/--help: print this usage message and exit
22 statement: statement to be timed (default 'pass')
23
24A multi-line statement may be given by specifying each line as a
25separate argument; indented lines are possible by enclosing an
26argument in quotes and using leading spaces. Multiple -s options are
27treated similarly.
28
29If -n is not given, a suitable number of loops is calculated by trying
30successive powers of 10 until the total time is at least 0.2 seconds.
31
32The difference in default timer function is because on Windows,
33clock() has microsecond granularity but time()'s granularity is 1/60th
34of a second; on Unix, clock() has 1/100th of a second granularity and
35time() is much more precise. On either platform, the default timer
36functions measure wall clock time, not the CPU time. This means that
37other processes running on the same computer may interfere with the
38timing. The best thing to do when accurate timing is necessary is to
39repeat the timing a few times and use the best time. The -r option is
40good for this; the default of 3 repetitions is probably enough in most
41cases. On Unix, you can use clock() to measure CPU time.
42
43Note: there is a certain baseline overhead associated with executing a
44pass statement. The code here doesn't try to hide it, but you should
45be aware of it. The baseline overhead can be measured by invoking the
46program without arguments.
47
48The baseline overhead differs between Python versions! Also, to
49fairly compare older Python versions to Python 2.3, you may want to
50use python -O for the older versions to avoid timing SET_LINENO
51instructions.
52"""
53
54import gc
55import sys
56import time
57try:
58 import itertools
59except ImportError:
60 # Must be an older Python version (see timeit() below)
61 itertools = None
62
63__all__ = ["Timer"]
64
65dummy_src_name = "<timeit-src>"
66default_number = 1000000
67default_repeat = 3
68
69if sys.platform == "win32":
70 # On Windows, the best timer is time.clock()
71 default_timer = time.clock
72else:
73 # On most other platforms the best timer is time.time()
74 default_timer = time.time
75
76# Don't change the indentation of the template; the reindent() calls
77# in Timer.__init__() depend on setup being indented 4 spaces and stmt
78# being indented 8 spaces.
79template = """
80def inner(_it, _timer):
81 %(setup)s
82 _t0 = _timer()
83 for _i in _it:
84 %(stmt)s
85 _t1 = _timer()
86 return _t1 - _t0
87"""
88
89def reindent(src, indent):
90 """Helper to reindent a multi-line statement."""
91 return src.replace("\n", "\n" + " "*indent)
92
93class Timer:
94 """Class for timing execution speed of small code snippets.
95
96 The constructor takes a statement to be timed, an additional
97 statement used for setup, and a timer function. Both statements
98 default to 'pass'; the timer function is platform-dependent (see
99 module doc string).
100
101 To measure the execution time of the first statement, use the
102 timeit() method. The repeat() method is a convenience to call
103 timeit() multiple times and return a list of results.
104
105 The statements may contain newlines, as long as they don't contain
106 multi-line string literals.
107 """
108
109 def __init__(self, stmt="pass", setup="pass", timer=default_timer):
110 """Constructor. See class doc string."""
111 self.timer = timer
112 stmt = reindent(stmt, 8)
113 setup = reindent(setup, 4)
114 src = template % {'stmt': stmt, 'setup': setup}
115 self.src = src # Save for traceback display
116 code = compile(src, dummy_src_name, "exec")
117 ns = {}
118 exec code in globals(), ns
119 self.inner = ns["inner"]
120
121 def print_exc(self, file=None):
122 """Helper to print a traceback from the timed code.
123
124 Typical use:
125
126 t = Timer(...) # outside the try/except
127 try:
128 t.timeit(...) # or t.repeat(...)
129 except:
130 t.print_exc()
131
132 The advantage over the standard traceback is that source lines
133 in the compiled template will be displayed.
134
135 The optional file argument directs where the traceback is
136 sent; it defaults to sys.stderr.
137 """
138 import linecache, traceback
139 linecache.cache[dummy_src_name] = (len(self.src),
140 None,
141 self.src.split("\n"),
142 dummy_src_name)
143 traceback.print_exc(file=file)
144
145 def timeit(self, number=default_number):
146 """Time 'number' executions of the main statement.
147
148 To be precise, this executes the setup statement once, and
149 then returns the time it takes to execute the main statement
150 a number of times, as a float measured in seconds. The
151 argument is the number of times through the loop, defaulting
152 to one million. The main statement, the setup statement and
153 the timer function to be used are passed to the constructor.
154 """
155 if itertools:
156 it = itertools.repeat(None, number)
157 else:
158 it = [None] * number
159 gcold = gc.isenabled()
160 gc.disable()
161 timing = self.inner(it, self.timer)
162 if gcold:
163 gc.enable()
164 return timing
165
166 def repeat(self, repeat=default_repeat, number=default_number):
167 """Call timeit() a few times.
168
169 This is a convenience function that calls the timeit()
170 repeatedly, returning a list of results. The first argument
171 specifies how many times to call timeit(), defaulting to 3;
172 the second argument specifies the timer argument, defaulting
173 to one million.
174
175 Note: it's tempting to calculate mean and standard deviation
176 from the result vector and report these. However, this is not
177 very useful. In a typical case, the lowest value gives a
178 lower bound for how fast your machine can run the given code
179 snippet; higher values in the result vector are typically not
180 caused by variability in Python's speed, but by other
181 processes interfering with your timing accuracy. So the min()
182 of the result is probably the only number you should be
183 interested in. After that, you should look at the entire
184 vector and apply common sense rather than statistics.
185 """
186 r = []
187 for i in range(repeat):
188 t = self.timeit(number)
189 r.append(t)
190 return r
191
192def main(args=None):
193 """Main program, used when run as a script.
194
195 The optional argument specifies the command line to be parsed,
196 defaulting to sys.argv[1:].
197
198 The return value is an exit code to be passed to sys.exit(); it
199 may be None to indicate success.
200
201 When an exception happens during timing, a traceback is printed to
202 stderr and the return value is 1. Exceptions at other times
203 (including the template compilation) are not caught.
204 """
205 if args is None:
206 args = sys.argv[1:]
207 import getopt
208 try:
209 opts, args = getopt.getopt(args, "n:s:r:tcvh",
210 ["number=", "setup=", "repeat=",
211 "time", "clock", "verbose", "help"])
212 except getopt.error, err:
213 print err
214 print "use -h/--help for command line help"
215 return 2
216 timer = default_timer
217 stmt = "\n".join(args) or "pass"
218 number = 0 # auto-determine
219 setup = []
220 repeat = default_repeat
221 verbose = 0
222 precision = 3
223 for o, a in opts:
224 if o in ("-n", "--number"):
225 number = int(a)
226 if o in ("-s", "--setup"):
227 setup.append(a)
228 if o in ("-r", "--repeat"):
229 repeat = int(a)
230 if repeat <= 0:
231 repeat = 1
232 if o in ("-t", "--time"):
233 timer = time.time
234 if o in ("-c", "--clock"):
235 timer = time.clock
236 if o in ("-v", "--verbose"):
237 if verbose:
238 precision += 1
239 verbose += 1
240 if o in ("-h", "--help"):
241 print __doc__,
242 return 0
243 setup = "\n".join(setup) or "pass"
244 # Include the current directory, so that local imports work (sys.path
245 # contains the directory of this script, rather than the current
246 # directory)
247 import os
248 sys.path.insert(0, os.curdir)
249 t = Timer(stmt, setup, timer)
250 if number == 0:
251 # determine number so that 0.2 <= total time < 2.0
252 for i in range(1, 10):
253 number = 10**i
254 try:
255 x = t.timeit(number)
256 except:
257 t.print_exc()
258 return 1
259 if verbose:
260 print "%d loops -> %.*g secs" % (number, precision, x)
261 if x >= 0.2:
262 break
263 try:
264 r = t.repeat(repeat, number)
265 except:
266 t.print_exc()
267 return 1
268 best = min(r)
269 if verbose:
270 print "raw times:", " ".join(["%.*g" % (precision, x) for x in r])
271 print "%d loops," % number,
272 usec = best * 1e6 / number
273 if usec < 1000:
274 print "best of %d: %.*g usec per loop" % (repeat, precision, usec)
275 else:
276 msec = usec / 1000
277 if msec < 1000:
278 print "best of %d: %.*g msec per loop" % (repeat, precision, msec)
279 else:
280 sec = msec / 1000
281 print "best of %d: %.*g sec per loop" % (repeat, precision, sec)
282 return None
283
284if __name__ == "__main__":
285 sys.exit(main())