Timely - Lightweight timing of JavaScript functions

When developing in JavaScript you often find yourself in situations where you want to measure the time it takes for a function to execute. Profilers can find this out but if you just want to measure the time for a function or two you might want to try Timely. Timely doesn't affect the parameters or return values of the functions that it measures. Instead it decorates the existing functions with a timing functionality that is completely transparent to the callers.

Installation

Node

npm install timely

Browser

bower install timely

Usage (in Node)

var timely = require('timely'),

// Synchronous function (Fibonacci)
fib = function(n) {
	if (n <= 2) return n;
	return fib(n - 1) + fib(n - 2);
},

// Asynchronous function with callback
wait = function(n, cb) {
	setTimeout(function() {
		cb(n);
	}, 100);
},

// Asynchronous function returning a promise
wait2 = function(n) {
  var defer = when.defer();
	setTimeout(function() {
		defer.resolve(n);
	}, 100);
  return defer.promise;
},

// Create a timed verion of the Synchronous funciton
fibT = timely(fib),
// Create a timed verion of the Asynchronous function with callback
waitT = timely.async(wait),
// Create a timed verion of the Asynchronous function returning a promise
waitT2 = timely.promise(wait2),

// Result of Synchronous function
resultSync;

// Call Synchronous function
resultSync = fibT(35);
//Output results of Synchronous function. fibT.time contains the time used for the last call
console.log('fib(35) = ' + resultSync + ', time: ' + fibT.time + 'ms');

// Call Asynchronous function with callback
waitT(42, function(resultAsync) {
	//Output results of Asynchronous function. waitT.time contains the time used for the last call
	console.log('wait(42) = ' + resultAsync + ', time: ' + waitT.time + 'ms');
});

// Call Asynchronous function returning a promise
waitT2(42).then(function(resultAsync) {
	//Output results of Asynchronous function. waitT2.time contains the time used for the last call
	console.log('wait2(42) = ' + resultAsync + ', time: ' + waitT2.time + 'ms');
});

Outputs:

fib(35) = 14930352, time: 201ms
wait(42) = 42, time: 101ms
wait2(42) = 42, time: 102ms

Demo

To run Node demo:

node demo.js

To run Browser demo:

Open demo.html in your favorite browser

API

• timely
• timely.async
• timely.promise

Functions

Returns a decorated version of a synchronous function func that measures its execution time. After the function has returned the measured time is available in the returned function's property "time". The mean time of all calls is founcd in the property "meanTime".

Arguments

func     {Function} Function to be timed

Returns a decorated version of an asynchronous function func that measures its execution time. After the callback has been called the measured time is available in the returned function's property "time". It is assumed that the callback is the last parameter of the function func. The mean time of all calls is founcd in the property "meanTime".

Arguments

func     {Function} Function to be timed

Returns a decorated version of an asynchronous function func that measures its execution time. After the returned promise has been resolved the measured time is available in the returned function's property "time". The mean time of all calls is founcd in the property "meanTime".

Arguments

func     {Function} Function to be timed

Tests

npm install
npm test

License

(MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2014 Aron Kornhall [email protected]

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