RE: timing functions and chunks of code in *nix?
- From: Delaunay Christophe <christophe.delaunay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2011 18:02:36 +0100
Hi Tyler,
According to the pieces of code you put in this message, I'm assuming you are
programming in a C-like language: C or C++, it does not matter, or just little.
Am I right?
So, here we go. The lines of C code are extracted from a library I made to do
this, but for logging purposes. The time measurement function I'm using is a
low-precision one, measuring time at a millisecond roundtrip or so.
On top of the logger module, I need the following line:
#include <sys/time.h>
This header contains the "timeval" data structure definition and the
"gettimeofday()" system call definition I'm using then.
Then, I need two data structures of type "timeval".
struct timeval prev, now; /* time of day with low precision, (expressed in s+µs
but rounded to ms) */
int val; /* used to compute a number of milliseconds */
In linux, your instruction "prev=gettime()" reads as:
gettimeofday(&prev, NULL);
then, you would have
myfunction();
as you did in your code.
Then,
gettimeofday(&now, NULL);
val = (now.tv_sec-prev.tv_sec)*1000 /* whole seconds if any multiplied by 1000
to get ms */
+ (int)((now.tv_usec-prev.tv_usec)/1000); /* number of µs from which I
compute integer division by 1000 to get ms */
and finally
printf("It took you %d milliseconds",val);
Apart from syntax errors I did not check since my linux box is off right now.
For more info, please have a look to
man gettimeofday
HTH. Have a nice day. Chris D
-----Original Message-----
From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Littlefield, Tyler
Sent: mardi 8 février 2011 16:57
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: timing functions and chunks of code in *nix?
Hello all,
I know windows exposes high-resolution timers to do this sorta thing,
but I'm curious how I could do the same in Linux? Is there something
that will give me timing in ms? so:
prev = gettime();
myfunc();
now = gettime();
printf("you spent %d ms.\n", prev-now);
--
Thanks,
Ty
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