content: # --------------------------------------------------------
  # Fast R-CNN
  # Copyright (c) 2015 Microsoft
  # Licensed under The MIT License [see LICENSE for details]
  # Written by Ross Girshick
  # --------------------------------------------------------
  
  import time
  
  class Timer(object):
      """A simple timer."""
      def __init__(self):
          self.total_time = 0.
          self.calls = 0
          self.start_time = 0.
          self.diff = 0.
          self.average_time = 0.
  
      def tic(self):
          # using time.time instead of time.clock because time time.clock
          # does not normalize for multithreading
          self.start_time = time.time()
  
      def toc(self, average=True):
          self.diff = time.time() - self.start_time
          self.total_time += self.diff
          self.calls += 1
          self.average_time = self.total_time / self.calls
          if average:
              return self.average_time
          else:
              return self.diff
  