high resolution time function under windows platform?

[wavelet]

Hi,

I am searching one time function under windows2000
with Visual C++ environment. Is there function available
like gethrtime() in unix? Thx.


#include <sys/time.h>

main()
{
hrtime_t start, end;
int i, iters = 100;

start = gethrtime();
for (i = 0; i < iters; i++)
getpid();
end = gethrtime();
printf("Avg getpid() time = %lld nsec\n", (end - start) / iters);
}

RGS,
Wavelet

 

[Victor Bazarov]

I am searching one time function under windows2000
with Visual C++ environment. Is there function available
like gethrtime() in unix? Thx.
[..]

And the reason you're asking here is...?

If you need a time function under Windows, ask in a newsgroup
for programming Windows.

 

[Bill Shortall]

Hi,

I am searching one time function under windows2000
with Visual C++ environment. Is there function available
like gethrtime() in unix? Thx.


#include <sys/time.h>

main()
{
hrtime_t start, end;
int i, iters = 100;

start = gethrtime();
for (i = 0; i < iters; i++)
getpid();
end = gethrtime();
printf("Avg getpid() time = %lld nsec\n", (end - start) / iters);
}

RGS,
Wavelet

Hi wavellet,

Windows has a millisecond timer available if thats good enough It returns
a long. Its in <windows.h>
usage is something like
long tim;
tim = GetTickCount();
// put what you want to time in here
tim = GetTickCount() - tim;


}

 

[Tobias Blomkvist]

wavelet sade:

Hi,

I am searching one time function under windows2000
with Visual C++ environment. Is there function available
like gethrtime() in unix? Thx.

QueryPerformanceCounter
QueryPerformanceFrequency

Tobias

 

[velthuijsen]

Windows has a millisecond timer available if thats good enough It returns
a long. Its in <windows.h>
usage is something like
long tim;
tim = GetTickCount();
// put what you want to time in here
tim = GetTickCount() - tim;

One caveat here. The millsecond timers in Windows do not update every
millisecond. For windows since NT 3.1 the millisecond timers update
roughly every 16 milliseconds. The 95 famliy updates roughly every 55
milliseconds.

 

[Maett]

One caveat here. The millsecond timers in Windows do not update every
millisecond. For windows since NT 3.1 the millisecond timers update
roughly every 16 milliseconds. The 95 famliy updates roughly every 55
milliseconds.

You might want to look at
http://groups.google.ch/group/comp.lang.c++/browse_frm/thread/d2311bd443c376b/a0c413f34baf1a7f

Greets
Maett

 

[velthuijsen]

You might want to look at

http://groups.google.ch/group/comp.lang.c++/browse_frm/thread/d2311bd443c376b/a0c413f34baf1a7f

What is the point you were trying to make?

 

[Maett]

What is the point you were trying to make?

Sorry if that was unclear:
I just wanted to add that the Windows millisecond timer tick depends on
your hardware (whether it's 10 ms or roughly 16 ms).
You can even vary it on certain hardware types.

Maett

 

[Marcin Kalicinski]

I am searching one time function under windows2000

with Visual C++ environment. Is there function available
like gethrtime() in unix? Thx.

Try these:

QueryPerformanceCounter();

or

GetThreadTimes();

or the ultimate (80x86 only):

__asm __emit 0fh
__asm __emit 031h

And 64 bit result is in EDX:EAX. The unit is one cpu cycle.

cheers,
M.