%timeit is a magic command in Jupyter notebooks that allows you to measure the execution time of a piece of code. It works by running the code multiple times and taking the best run time.
Here’s an example of how to use %timeit:
%timeit sum(range(100))
This will execute the sum function with the range [0, 1, 2, ..., 99] and return the best time out of a few runs. The output will look something like this:
779 ns ± 15.6 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 7 runs, 1,000,000 loops each)You can also use %timeit with an optional argument to specify the number of runs and the length of each run. For example:
%timeit -r3 -n1000 sum(range(100))
This will execute the sum function with the range [0, 1, 2, ..., 99] 1000 times with 3 repeats, and return the best time out of the 3 repeats. The output will look something like this:
3.21 µs ± 584 ns per loop (mean ± std. dev. of 3 runs, 1,000 loops each)
