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From: elric AT wheel DOT dcn DOT davis DOT ca DOT us (Jeffrey Taylor)
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Subject: Re: HRTIMER
Date: 29 Aug 1996 17:09:52 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:
: 
: On 21 Aug 1996, Sam Phillips wrote:
: 
: > I've been trying to time some code with HRTIMER and everytime it runs the
: > program it returns with a 0 for how long the operation took.
: 
: What is HRTIMER?

This is the code I use for timing programs.  It works fine for me.  The 
resolution is 1/18 of a second.

 -- 
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Without my guitar, I am a poet without arms.
                        - Michael Bloomfield
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#include <stdio.h>
#include <process.h>
#include <time.h>


int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
	int status;
	clock_t start = clock();

	status = spawnvp(P_WAIT, argv[1], argv + 1);

	fprintf(stderr, "elapsed time: %.2f seconds\n",
				(float)(clock() - start) / CLK_TCK);
				
	return status;
}