How to measure the time of a Maya script?

Question

I have several methods implemented in MEL, and I would like to measure its performance. Is there any way to measure execution time of a fragment of code? Something equivalent to "getCurrentTime" in other languages.

Answer 1

Timer

// Example 1: Simple timing
//
$startTime = `timerX`;
// code that is being timed
$totalTime = `timerX -startTime $startTime`;
print ("Total Time: "+$totalTime+"\n");

Answer 2

the timerX() command will give you seconds since Maya was started, so you can grab that and do the math:

float $start = timerX();