ruby calculate execution time
To calculate the execution time of a Ruby program, you can use the Process
module's clock_gettime
method. This method returns the number of seconds and nanoseconds since an arbitrary starting point, which you can use to measure the elapsed time.
Here are the steps to calculate the execution time in Ruby:
- First, you need to require the
Process
module at the beginning of your script:
require 'benchmark'
- Then, you can start the timer by calling the
Process.clock_gettime
method with theProcess::CLOCK_MONOTONIC
constant as the argument. This will return the starting time:
start_time = Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_MONOTONIC)
- Next, you can execute the code that you want to measure the execution time for:
# Code to measure execution time
# ...
- After the code execution, you can calculate the elapsed time by subtracting the starting time from the current time. To get the current time, you can call the
Process.clock_gettime
method again:
end_time = Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_MONOTONIC)
elapsed_time = end_time - start_time
- Finally, you can print the elapsed time in seconds:
puts "Elapsed time: #{elapsed_time} seconds"
By following these steps, you can calculate the execution time of a Ruby program. The Process.clock_gettime
method provides a reliable way to measure the elapsed time, and the Process::CLOCK_MONOTONIC
constant ensures that the timer is not affected by system clock adjustments.