effort {mspath} | R Documentation |
Generic function for calculators returning estimates of the amount of work involved in the computation. Exact details are likely to change.
effort(calc)
calc |
The mspathCalculator or subclass for
which we want the effort estimate. |
Only call this after invoking calculate
.
A single number giving the best estimate of likely effort for the active cases. This is useful for gauging the relative times of different subsets; the absolute values have no particular meaning. In particular, they are not in seconds.Subject to change and the exact history of the calculator.
In the future values disaggregated down to individual cases or some intermediate level may be returned.
Ross Boylan
mspathCalculator
,
link{estimateWork}
for a richer set of information on likely
effort.