Re: clock() function and Dll's
Guru wrote:
I have an application which loads a dll at runtime. Now to measure the
performance of my applications I created an array where I logged in the
clock() timings inside the code..just to see where my application speds
most of the time...
While your method works, using a proper profiler would be much better. The
result from a profile is a tree with main() at its root which resembles
100% and each function call under main with its percentage etc. If you want
to optimise regularly, you should absolutely get such a tool, even if it
costs money.
Now First clock() i measures is at outside of dll i.e. at application(bin)
level.Then i passes the control to one my dll function..thru' funtion
pointer (as Im loading dll dynamically) and measure rest of the counter.
Once I come out of dll I measure the END time.
Now interestingly As i measured the clock() outside dll is always greater
than clock() inside dll..??
Can anyone tell me what is happening here..?Is it that Dll is also treated
as kindaa executable by O/S and O/S sets the new counter for it too just
like any executable..??
I'd say that the DLL and the executable use different clock()
implementations. This can happen when e.g. they both use an instance of the
static runtime library or when one uses the debug DLL runtime and the other
the release variant. You can debug into the clock() implementation and see
where (in which module) it resides.
Uli
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