Are you logging your runs?
Just put
disp c(current_date) c(current_time)
at the start of your procedure, and again at the end.
Then examine what is written in the log.
-- David
At 08:31 PM 5/12/2004 +0200, you wrote:
OK thank you everybody for these explanations.
My problem is to save the time of computing, because my aim is to compare
by simulations several methods, notably to compare them over the time of
computing. These method are very long to run (several hours for one of
them, several dizains of minutes for two others, seval seconds for the
four last), and I so, the displaying of the time of computing is not
enough for me: I must save it.
[...]
David Kantor
Institute for Policy Studies
Johns Hopkins University
[email protected]
410-516-5404
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