How to measure execution time of a program

[Wolfram Kraus]

On 28.06.2006 10:01, Girish Sahani wrote:
> Sorry for spamming again, but please also enlighten me with some way to
> time a function i.e. to find out how much time each function takes for
> execution in a big program.
>> Hi all,
>>
>>   Can anyone tell me the simplest way to do it (some code snippet that
>> could be included in the program's main function) ??
>>
>> Thanks,
>> girish
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Wolfram