Benchmarking your Python experiments

Which is the fastest way to do this or that? Why not try them all and benchmark! 🙂

All you need to do is lock at the time.clock()…

# We need this for OS detection:
from platform import system as OStype

# Step 1: tick, tock...
from time import clock
start_time = clock()


# Step 2: ???
# (You do your procedures here.)
# You NEED to do SOMETHING. Don't leave this blank!!

# Here's a filler of nothingness:
from time import sleep
sleep(0.05)


# Step 3: calculate duration
timeTaken = clock() - start_time

# In Windows clock() returns seconds but in Linux it's milliseconds, so:
units = ["seconds" if OStype() is "Windows" else "milliseconds"][0]

msg = "It took "+str(timeTaken)+" "+units+" to process your code."

Application.LogMessage(msg) # if you're in Softimage,
# otherwise use print() or whatever.

I tried to make the snippet above as generic as possible, but if you’re using Python in Softimage, you can use XSIUtils.IsWindowsOS() for detecting Windows instead of my OStype stuff.