Timing repeated function calls

[Malcolm Wallace]

"Jeffrey A. Scofield" <sja10587@qwest.net> writes:

> I'm not worried about speed per se, rather I'm trying to validate
> my (rough) complexity analysis for the function and, if it works,
> to make some projections for how long it would take to calculate
> various things.


Since you aren't interested in absolute timings, just the algorithmic
complexity, then you could try using a less smart compiler (e.g. nhc98)
which will not automatically optimise away the repeated calls.

Regards,
    Malcolm