Stopwatch function in Julia

MATLAB has a couple of functions tic

and toc

which can be used to start and stop the stopwatch timer. Example taken from link :

tic
A = rand(12000, 4400);
B = rand(12000, 4400);
toc
C = A'.*B';
toc

      

        
        
        
      

    

I know Julia has a macro @time

that has similar functionality.

julia> @time [sin(cos(i)) for i in 1:100000];
elapsed time: 0.00721026 seconds (800048 bytes allocated)

      

        
        
        
      

    

Does Julia have many of these features? The macro @time

works well for sync statements that can be written in one or two lines. For longer pieces of code, I would rather use the tic-toc functions.

What i tried

When I googled "julia stopwatch" I found one helpful link and four unrelated links.

• Introducing Julia / Metaprogramming - Wikibooks, open ... Meta-programming is when you write Julia's code to process and modify Julia's code .... The @time macro inserts a "start stopwatch" command at the beginning ...
• Our invisible stopwatch promo - YouTube Videos for julia stopwatch
• Julia Larson on Twitter: "This OSX #Mac timer / stopwatch is ...
• Timed episodes of a French chef with a stopwatch
• julia griffith | Oiselle Running Apparel for women

I don't know why I didn't think to just try tic()

and toc()

.