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Re: Possible to get name of current procedure from within procedure? [message #70818]

Tue, 11 May 2010 11:40

robparker23
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Registered: March 2009

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On 11 May, 14:53, pp <pp.pente...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 11, 10:42 am, Rob <robparke...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure if this question even makes sense but what I was
>> wondering is does IDL have any sort of function or variable that can
>> output the name of the procedure/function that is currently being
>> executed?
>
> scope_traceback() gives you the entire call stack.

Thanks. I found an old reference on here to help, calls=stacks which
(although deprecated) does what I want to do.

>> Ultimately this would be something we'd add to all of our modular
>> procedures in order to monitor performance and see how fast each
>> module was running.
>
> This sounds a lot like what the profiler does.

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I'd never heard of the profiler
tool before. I've just read up on it on David's site and will
certainly give it a test out. Thanks :-)

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Re: Possible to get name of current procedure from within procedure? [message #70822 is a reply to message #70818]

Tue, 11 May 2010 06:53

penteado
Messages: 866
Registered: February 2018

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On May 11, 10:42 am, Rob <robparke...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure if this question even makes sense but what I was
> wondering is does IDL have any sort of function or variable that can
> output the name of the procedure/function that is currently being
> executed?

scope_traceback() gives you the entire call stack.

>
> What I'd like to do is write a generic bit of code that spawns the
> system time and outputs this to a file, ALONG with the name of the
> procedure where the spawn command was executed.

systime() is probably better than spawning a process just to get the
time.

>
> Ultimately this would be something we'd add to all of our modular
> procedures in order to monitor performance and see how fast each
> module was running.

This sounds a lot like what the profiler does.

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Re: Possible to get name of current procedure from within procedure? [message #70909 is a reply to message #70818]

Wed, 12 May 2010 02:34

robparker23
Messages: 10
Registered: March 2009

Junior Member

> I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I'd never heard of the profiler
> tool before. I've just read up on it on David's site and will
> certainly give it a test out. Thanks :-)

Having run the profiler on our code it seems that we're severely over-
using the undefine.pro procedure written by David.

Sorted by time we get:

Module Type Count Only(s) Avg.(s) Time(s) Avg.(s)
UNDEFINE (U) 3026194 14224.68799 0.0047 142470.4584 0.014034

(Which strangely seems to be longer than we actually ran the total
code for)

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