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Re: Counting running processes in IDL? [message #77190] Wed, 10 August 2011 08:57
Jasdeep Anand is currently offline  Jasdeep Anand
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On Aug 10, 3:09 pm, Jeremy Bailin <astroco...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/10/11 5:32 AM, Jasdeep Anand wrote:
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>> Hello all,
>
>> I'm putting together a program in IDL to analyse some data. Long story
>> short, there are plenty of calculations, loops and IF statements
>> abound and it works reasonably well on the computer we have. The
>> problem is that I want to port at least some of these processes onto a
>> format that would run in embedded software (say on the back of a
>> processor). The first think I want to do is to count how many times
>> during a program's run does it do anything remotely taxing (adding,
>> multiplying, array manipulation, etc). Is there anything like a
>> process counter in IDL, where it would output the time a program took
>> to run, and the number of times "something expensive" happened?
>
>> Thanks in advance,
>
>> Jasdeep.
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> I'm not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, but the profiler
> would probably be a good place to start.
>
> http://www.idlcoyote.com/code_tips/whyslow.html
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> -Jeremy.- Hide quoted text -
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Jeremy,

That's precisely what I'm looking for. Thanks!

Jasdeep.
Re: Counting running processes in IDL? [message #77191 is a reply to message #77190] Wed, 10 August 2011 07:09 Go to previous message
Jeremy Bailin is currently offline  Jeremy Bailin
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Registered: April 2008
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On 8/10/11 5:32 AM, Jasdeep Anand wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm putting together a program in IDL to analyse some data. Long story
> short, there are plenty of calculations, loops and IF statements
> abound and it works reasonably well on the computer we have. The
> problem is that I want to port at least some of these processes onto a
> format that would run in embedded software (say on the back of a
> processor). The first think I want to do is to count how many times
> during a program's run does it do anything remotely taxing (adding,
> multiplying, array manipulation, etc). Is there anything like a
> process counter in IDL, where it would output the time a program took
> to run, and the number of times "something expensive" happened?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Jasdeep.

I'm not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, but the profiler
would probably be a good place to start.

http://www.idlcoyote.com/code_tips/whyslow.html

-Jeremy.
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