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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