Name

TAU_PROFILER_START — starts a profiler object created by TAU_PROFILER_CREATE

Synopsis

C/C++:

TAU_PROFILER_START(timer);
Timer timer;

description

TAU_PROFILER_STARTstarts a profiler timer by passing the pointer created by the TAU_PROFILER_CREATE.

example

>C/C++:

void *ptr;
TAU_PROFILER_CREATE(ptr, "foo","", TAU_USER);

TAU_PROFILER_START(ptr);
foo(2);
TAU_PROFILER_STOP(ptr); 

>Python:

import pytau
ptr = pytau.profileTimer("foo")

pytau.start(ptr)
foo(2)
pytau.stop(ptr)