Re: Calculating powmod...

["Karim Belabas" <Karim.Belabas@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

* David Cleaver [2009-10-19 07:25]:
> Also, is there a way to print out timing information at the end of a 
> program?  I know that when a "program" I've written finishes, I can do a ## 
> to see how long it took to run.  But, I'd like to somehow put that command 
> into the program. When I tried "##" or "##;", it said "unexpected 
> character(s)" and pointed to right after the "##".

## is a "keyboard shortcut", only valid in the command-line gp interpreter.

Have a look at gettime() for a more flexible equivalent.

You may also set a timer on by default : default(timer, 1) in a program,
or even timer = 1 in your .gprc

Cheers,

    K.B.
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