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profile(+Goal)

Execute Goal (once) and print the time spent in each predicate.
Goal
Callable term

Description

This predicate invokes the profiler with default options. Equivalent to: 

       profile(Goal, []).
See profile/2 for details.

ECLiPSe must have been started with the -P command line option (or equivalent) in order to support profiling.

Modes and Determinism

Modules

This predicate is sensitive to its module context (tool predicate, see @/2).

Examples

?- profile(length(_,100000000)).

		  PROFILING STATISTICS
		  --------------------
Goal:		  length(_80, 100000000)
Result:		  success
Sampling rate:	  every 0.01s process_cputime
Samples taken:	  182
Thread cputime:	  1.82s

Predicate	      Module	    %Time    Time   %Cum
---------------------------------------------------------
length            /2  sepia_kernel  79.7%    1.45s  79.7%
garbage_collect   /0  sepia_kernel  20.3%    0.37s 100.0%

Yes (1.86s cpu)

See Also

get_flag / 2, profile / 2