Save "time" in a variable in GAP

Question

i'm trying to write a program in GAP to obtain the time that GAP needs to construct the groups of an order given. I'm using the command:

ConstructAllGroups(order);;time;

Is there anyway to save the value of "time" in a variable? I did it with:

a:=ConstructAllGroups(10);;time;

but only the groups were saved.

Answer 1

Time is just like a variable (this is different to the time command in unix and other systems), so you can assign its value to other variables:

a:=ConstructAllGroups(10);;savedtime:=time;

Within a program I would rather refer to the value of Runtime(), that is:

start:=Runtime();
a:=ConstructAllPiffles(-33);
total:=Runtime()-start;

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