[Haskell-cafe] Timing execution of individual functions in ghci?

[Daniel Trstenjak]

Hi Magnus,

> When playing around with various implementations of a single function
> it would be nice to time the execution. Is there some way to do that
> easily from within GHCi?

ghci normally only interprets your code, without much optimizations,
so your timings might be quite misleading.

> Or am I forced to look to criterion for that?

I think so, if you want to trust your timings.


Greetings,
Daniel