clock

A function that can be used in Formulas.

Syntax and semantics

clock ( )
the number of seconds since system start-up, with microsecond precision.

Examples

t = clock()
for i to 1000
endfor
appendInfoLine: "Time elapsed: ", clock() - t, " seconds"
=>
Time elapsed: 0.00016024999786168337 seconds
t = clock()
for i to 1000
endfor
timeElapsed = clock() - t
appendInfoLine: "Time elapsed: ", fixed$ (1000 * timeElapsed, 3), " ms"
=>
Time elapsed: 0.159 ms

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