Re: Processor time used by Emacs

[Lars Brinkhoff]

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> > Is there a way in Emacs Lisp to find out the amount of processor time
> > (perhaps separated into user/system time) spent by Emacs?
> > 
> > For example, if there was such a function called processor-time, this
> > should return (close to) 0:
> > 
> >         (let ((start (processor-time)))
> >           (sleep-for 10)
> >           (- (processor-time) start))
> > 
> > , whereas current-time would indicate that ten seconds passed
> > sleeping.
> 
> (let ((start (current-time)))
>   (sleep-for 10)
>   (float-time (time-since start)))

That would return (about) 10.0, right?  If so, time-since is not what
I need.

(My version of Emacs (20.7) doesn't have time-since, but I guess it's
the time-since function from Gnus.)

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