Measurement of time in a While loop

Greetings gentleman;

I'm kinda new to Labview, and although I sought an answer without assignment, I wasn't able to find one.

So here my question, I would like to know how I can measure the time a loop sequence, in other words, what time is my point of view VI to run the main loop together?

A little explanation, the attached VI tries to be a Markov chain, it takes some values in the first case structure based on the previus loop, then, if the values are correct, it passes to the next step and so on. It's pretty simple, and yet, my problem lies in the measurement of time. Since it is a 'distribution', it would take infinite time to execute a simple loop if it does not fulfill the characteristics, but it is scheduled to meet them so an average time should work.

So, if you look to the while loop, should the big one, I want to measure how long I take for a ride.

Thanks for the help, I'd be happy to read some ideas on how to measure this.

Kind regards

IRAN.

You will find examples in the example Finder OR by searching for 'speed test' or ' reference '.

Essentially, you create a flat sequence structure inside of your loop. In the first image, you measure the current number of cycles. In the middle frame, you run your code. In the last image, you measure the number of cycles again and subtract the first number of this. This gives you the run time to execute the code.

You can see a page of the community about it here.

There is a high-resolution time tick count VI hang out somewhere which is great for benchmarking and improving efficiency, used instead the number of cycles (ms) primitive.

Edit - remember where he was

https://decibel.NI.com/content/blogs/EvanP/2010/10/04/tick-count-us--microsecond-timing-granularity-...

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