Timer Macro

The TIMER macro writes the elapsed time between calling this macro with MODE=ON and MODE=OFF. This comes in very handy when you want to find the slow parts of your code.

%macro timer
  (   mode = ON
    , description = Duration
    , reset = Y
  ) ;
  %global timermacro_starttime ;

  %if %upcase( &mode ) = OFF %then %do ;
    %if %symexist( timermacro_starttime ) %then do ;
      %put &description %sysfunc( putn( %sysevalf( %sysfunc( datetime() )
        - &timermacro_starttime ), 12.3 ) ) seconds @ %sysfunc( time(), time8. ) ;
      %if %upcase( &reset ) = Y %then %symdel timermacro_starttime ;
  %end ;
  %else %let timermacro_starttime = %sysfunc( datetime() ) ;
%mend ;
Example:

  %timer()

    data _null_ ;
    run ;

  %timer( mode = off ) 

    Duration 0.153 seconds