Re: Function Timer in C

From:
"James Kanze" <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
6 Apr 2007 02:08:35 -0700
Message-ID:
<1175850515.534068.316720@w1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
On Apr 6, 7:06 am, "Jim Langston" <tazmas...@rocketmail.com> wrote:

<yoviesma...@gmail.com> wrote in message

news:1175757910.094696.10680@w1g2000hsg.googlegroups.com...

I have a problem with C programming. I want to make function timing
in C, but I don't know how the function or the algorithm. so, I need
your help to giveme information about it. Thanks.. for your
attention... see.. you..


I generally just use clock().

unsigned int Start = clock();
MyFunction();
unsigned int End = clock();
std::cout "Elapapsed time: " << End - Start << " ns" << "\n";

Modify to taste. I think it's ms.


It's CLOCKS_PER_SECOND. Posix requires CLOCKS_PER_SECOND to be
1000000, but it may vary on other systems. The best way to
write the above would be:

    std::cout << "Elapapsed time: "
        << double( End - Start ) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC * 1000.0
        << " ms" << std::endl ;

On my system it's 1/1000 of a second.


In the old days, 50 or 60 used to be frequent values.

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