Sorry! UCOUNTER is right. :P
I have a word just like PROFILE. You could even gather results in an array
and then get the average or the mean to compensate for variances because of
cache, multitasking, or whatever.

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Ron Oliver <ron_at_forth.com> wrote:

> Ron Oliver wrote:
> >
> > e.g.: to test FOO:
> > 1000 FOO PROFILE \ print time required to run FOO 1000 times
>
> Oops! I meant
>
> 1000 PROFILE FOO \ print time required to run FOO 1000 times
>
> Normally, what I'd do is just write a simple throwaway word:
>
> : TIME-FOO ( -- ) uCOUNTER 1000 0 DO FOO LOOP uTIMER ;
>
> There! It doesn't get any simpler than that.
>
>
> -Ron
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