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+# Copyright (c) 2016 Egor Tensin <Egor.Tensin@gmail.com>
+# This file is part of the "Sorting algorithms" project.
+# For details, see https://github.com/egor-tensin/sorting-algorithms.
+# Distributed under the MIT License.
+
+import gc
+import time
+
+
+def get_timestamp():
+    return time.perf_counter()
+
+
+class Timer:
+    def __init__(self, dest, iterations=1):
+        self._dest = dest
+        self._iterations = iterations
+
+    def __enter__(self):
+        gc.disable()
+        self._start = get_timestamp()
+        return self
+
+    def __exit__(self, *args):
+        end = get_timestamp()
+        gc.enable()
+        self._dest.append((end - self._start) / self._iterations)