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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT",serif'>Hello all, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT",serif'>I am writing to inquire if there is any function that tracks the time taken by the different steps in an NCL program. Matlab and R have this functionality called the tic and toc (stopwatch timer). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT",serif'>The main use of this is to debug which function/step is taking such a long time to complete and to see if I can improve its efficiency (computational). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT",serif'>Any suggestions? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT",serif'>Thank you, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Bodoni MT",serif'>Prashanth <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>