CPUTIME

Name

cputime

Purpose (one Line)

Return the accumulated user and system times since an arbitrary time.

Description

The overhead in using this procedure is about 3 milliseconds per call.

Calling Sequence

cputime, utime, stime

Inputs

Optional Input Parameters

Keyword Input Parameters

Outputs

utime : CPU user time in seconds.
stime : CPU system time in seconds.

Keyword Output Parameters

Common Blocks

Side Effects

Restrictions

Procedure

The CALL_EXTERNAL function of IDL is used to communicate with a function
written in C. This function is cputime.c which, compiled and linked, has
entry point 'cputime' in the Shareable Object Library file 'cputime.so' in
/gryll/data1/dwl/idl.
See /gryll/data1/dwl/idl/cputime.c for further information.

Modification History

Written by Doug Loucks, Lowell Observatory, April, 1993.