An instrumentation wrapper for Haskell data

Chronograph allows you to measure and record data and IO evaluation time.

Chronograph is meant to be used as a lightweight, unobtrusive mechanism to collect timings of evaluations and IO actions during program execution.

Install the latest version from Hackage:

$ cabal install chronograph

Alternatively, git clone this repo and:

$ cabal install

To measure the evaluation time of an expression, pass it as an argument to the 'chrono' function:

> import Data.Chronograph
>
> let timed_someExpr = chrono (someExpr)

'chrono' has the type 'a -> Chronograph a'

Then just use the 'val' of a 'Chronograph' everywhere you would use the original expression.

> doSomethingWith (val timed_someExpr)

You can check the evaluation time with 'measure'

> let exprTime = measure timed_someExpr

For IO actions, use 'chronoIO'.

Here's a full example, demonstrating both pure and IO functions:

> import Control.Applicative
> import System.Environment
> import Data.Chronograph
>
> import Text.Printf
>
> procFile :: FilePath -> IO ()
> procFile fp = do
>     doc <- readFile fp
>     let wc = length $ lines doc
>     void $ chronoPrint "time to calc length" (chrono wc)
>
> procIO :: FilePath -> IO ()
> procIO fp = do
>     wc <- chronoIO $ fileLinesIO fp
>     void $ chronoPrint "" wc
>
> fileLinesIO :: FilePath -> IO Int
> fileLinesIO fp = length . lines <$> readFile fp
>
> main :: IO ()
> main = do
>     args <- getArgs
>     putStrLn "pure Chronograph"
>     mapM_ procFile args
>     putStrLn "IO Chronograph"
>     mapM_ procIO args

Values in a Chronograph are lazy, and won't be evaluated until either the 'val' or 'measure' is evaluated.

'chronoBy' and 'chronoIOBy' take an evaluation parameter to control how much of the data will be evaluated and timed. The shortcut functions 'chrono' and 'chronoNF' are provided for the common cases of weak head normal form (seq) and normal form (deepseq).

File bugs in the GitHub issue tracker.

Master git repository:

• git clone https://github.com/JohnLato/chronograph

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