How do you obtain the execution times of processes in qgis?

Question

I am working on QGIS. I need to determine how much time QGIS needed to finish a specific task. I have been unable to get execution times for the processes. What is the proper way to get processing time under QGIS?

Answer 1

What kind of tasks are you referring to?

I use the following static class to benchmark my code.

I designed it to be static so that I can call the start/stop/show methods wherever is needed without worrying about passing references to the Timer back and forth.

The optional parameters allow me to have several running at once, any values will do but names look nicer.

Sometimes its necessary to create a stub method and connect it to a signal in order to call these methods at the right moment, but without knowing more about what you are timing its hard to be specific.

from PyQt4.QtGui import *
from datetime import datetime

class Timer():
  startTimes=dict()
  stopTimes=dict()

  @staticmethod
  def start(key = 0):
    Timer.startTimes[key] = datetime.now()
    Timer.stopTimes[key] = None

  @staticmethod
  def stop(key = 0):
    Timer.stopTimes[key] = datetime.now()

  @staticmethod
  def show(key = 0):
    if key in Timer.startTimes:
      if Timer.startTimes[key] is not None:
        if key in Timer.stopTimes:
          if Timer.stopTimes[key] is not None:
            delta = Timer.stopTimes[key] - Timer.startTimes[key]
            QMessageBox.information(None,"Timer: " + str(key), str(delta))

Answer 2

you can use python timeit function for testing it.

import timeit

def myfunction():
    try:
       #do something
    except AttributeError:
       pass

print timeit.timeit('testfunc(), 'from __main__ import myfunction as testfunc')

>>0.34454334343 

i hope it helps you....