# coding: utf-8 | |
""" | |
tools to measure elapsed time | |
""" | |
import time | |
class Timer(object): | |
"""A simple timer.""" | |
def __init__(self): | |
self.total_time = 0. | |
self.calls = 0 | |
self.start_time = 0. | |
self.diff = 0. | |
def tic(self): | |
# using time.time instead of time.clock because time time.clock | |
# does not normalize for multithreading | |
self.start_time = time.time() | |
def toc(self, average=True): | |
self.diff = time.time() - self.start_time | |
return self.diff | |
def clear(self): | |
self.start_time = 0. | |
self.diff = 0. | |