How to measure required time(tic-toc) in a vi?

how to measure required time(like tic-toc in matlab) in a vi?

There is the Profile>Performance and Memory option under the tools menu. I'm not sure if this is available with other than the professional version of LabVIEW. And, as I already mentioned, you have all of the time functions on the Timing palette. Call Tick Count or Get Date/Time in Seconds before you function and then again after the function is called. Subtract.
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