Hi,

I want to measure the CPU time, not the "apparent" user time, consumed
by a block of code in my Java program. This Java program was translated
from Fortran program and now we want to do some bench mark to compare
with its original Fortran program, but we don't want to count those I/O
operations. We just want to focus on the block of code doing heavy duty
scientific computations. The command

time java MyJavaClassName

will give the user time and system time spent for the whole program from
beginning to the end.

I came a "silly" idea for measuring the system time used by the block of
code we are interested in by using "time" command:

for(int i=1; i<=20; i++)
{
    //code for doing computation
}

Then

time java MyJavaClassName

The extra system time is due to 19 runs of computation. The extra system
time used divided it by 19 gives me the system time for a single
computation.

The result is that the system time used by Java code is even LESS than
the Fortran code. Is the result trustable? Or some kind of buffering
makes the number too small?

(Fortunately, there is a easy way in Fortran to measure the user time,
system time used by a block of code. like
http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/lang/fortran/elapsed.html)

Am I right? Thank you.