Dave,
Try -profiler-; it will probably do what you want. From the help file:
"profiler is a programmer's command that can help in optimizing ado-files
and other Stata programs. When profiling is turned on, profiler on, Stata
begins keeping a record of each time a program is run and how much time is
spent in the program."
Hope this helps.
--Mark
BTW, when start a session with -profiler clear- and I haven't run profiler
yet, it crashes. Just -capture profiler clear- is the way I deal with it.
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 05:54:58 -0500 (EST), David K Evans
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Stata friends,
>
> Is there a simple way to see how much time has elapsed while a
> command in the midst of a "for" loop is running?
>
> Outside of a loop, I just "set rmsg on" and can see how long each
> command takes.
>
> But if I have, for example,
>
> for num 1/10: preserve \ keep if age==X \ reshape [blah blah blah]
> \
> save ageX.dta, replace \ restore;
>
> and I want to know how long the reshaping took, I'm not sure how to
> find out. "set rmsg on" only gives me the time for the entire loop.
>
> I know about macros to display the time, but I'm not sure how to
> manipulate them to calculate time elapsed.
>
> Thanks so much,
> Dave
>
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