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  • Committer: Bazaar Package Importer
  • Author(s): Torsten Werner
  • Date: 2005-01-09 22:58:21 UTC
  • mfrom: (1.1.1 upstream)
  • Revision ID: james.westby@ubuntu.com-20050109225821-473xr8vhgugxxx5j
Tags: 3.0-12
http://bugs.debian.org/255869
changed configure.in to build scilab's own malloc.o, closes: #255869

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.TH pvm_get_timer 1 "January 1998" "Scilab // Group" "Scilab function"
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.so ../sci.an
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.SH NAME
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pvm_get_timer - Gets the  system's notion  of  the current time.
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.SH CALLING SEQUENCE
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.nf
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[time] = pvm_get_timer()
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.fi
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.SH PARAMETERS
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.TP 5
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time
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: scalar
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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\fVpvm_get_timer\fR returns the  time elapsed since  the last  call of
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pvm_get_timer or   the  last  call  of  pvm_set_timer.  The  time   is
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expressed in elapsed microseconds.  The resolution of the system clock
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is  hardware  dependent; the  time may  be  updated continuously or in
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clock ticks.
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.I timer
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will be > 0.
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If some error occurs then
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.I timer
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will be -1.
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.SH EXAMPLE
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.nf
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B = rand(100,100);
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A = rand(100,100);
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pvm_set_timer();C=A*B;t=pvm_get_timer()
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.fi
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.SH SEE ALSO
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pvm_set_timer