edu.umass.cs.mallet.base.util

Class Timing

java.lang.Object

edu.umass.cs.mallet.base.util.Timing

public class Timing
extends Object

A class for timing things. Originally inspired by the Timing class in the Stanford NLP cade, but completely rewritten.

Created: Dec 30, 2004

Version:

$Id: Timing.java,v 1.1 2005/06/01 22:27:35 casutton Exp $

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Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Timing()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
long	elapsedTime() Returns how much time as passed since Object creation, or the most recent call to tick().
long	tick(String msg) Print to System.out how much time has passed, resetting this Timing's start time to the current time.
long	totalElapsedTime() Returns the number of milliseconds since this object was created.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Timing

public Timing()

Method Detail

tick

public long tick(String msg)

Print to System.out how much time has passed, resetting this Timing's start time to the current time. Time is measured from the most recent tick call, or when this object was created.

Parameters:

msg - Prefix of string printed with time

Returns:

Number of elapsed milliseconds from tick (or start)

elapsedTime

public long elapsedTime()

Returns how much time as passed since Object creation, or the most recent call to tick().

Returns:

Number of elapsed milliseconds

totalElapsedTime

public long totalElapsedTime()

Returns the number of milliseconds since this object was created. Ignores previous calls to tick, unlike elapsedTime and tick.