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measure time taken to run code

Topic last updated 31 May 2011, by Thomas Lunzer. 1 reply
Andrew Cook
31 May 2011

Is it possible to measure the time taken for the mbed to run through my code.

Ideally I'd like to be able to find the time in ms for the code to run.

Thomas Lunzer
31 May 2011

Either you use timer:

#include "mbed.h"

Timer t;

int main() {
    t.start();
    printf("Hello World!\n");
    t.stop();
    printf("The time taken was %f seconds\n", t.read());
}

or for very short routines use "benchmark" from the cookbook: http://mbed.org/users/igor_m/programs/benchmark/lj12hn