[web-devel] Timing WAI response generation

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi,

I've ported Hoogle to WAI/Warp and it's great - I am very happy.

The only feature I lost is the ability to time how long a response
takes to generate/send. For my purposes, I'm not even overly bothered
whether it's the time taken to generate, or the time taken to send to
the clients machine, or something somewhere between these two times. I
came up with a couple of ideas:

1) I generate my response with a lazy byte string. I could make the
final chunk of the lazy bytestring something impure (with
unsafePerformIO) that writes into an MVar when it gets forced.
2) If I knew more about enumerators/iteratees I think it might be
possible for each chunk generated to start a time, wait til the chunk
is ready, and then stop the timer - giving the exact time to generate
all the chunks. Or append two chunks, one at each end, that start/stop
the timer.

Does anyone have any better suggestions, or ways of performing the timing?

Thanks, Neil