We've made it easy for our users to run timing experiments on SamIam's MAP calculation. If you plan to report empirical timings, we provide two alternatives: Batch Tool and Code Bandit.

Batch Tool automatically includes detailed timing information as part of the results of an approximate or exact MAP query. It breaks the time to calculate MAP into three mutually exclusive tasks: (1) model pruning, (2) initialization, and (3) the actual search. For each of these chunks BatchTool gives the system elapsed time and a thread profile time, if available.

Code Bandit writes an example Java program that calculates MAP and reports the same timings as BatchTool. Short prototype code demonstrates clearly and concisely how to include such timings in your own Java programs that call our inference library.