Timing a program

[Unregistered]

I have a program that I want to time. For example, if I run my loop 200 times versus 500 times I want to see how long each takes. I have done this before on UNIX including <sys/time.h>. Now I am using visual C on a windows machine. Can anyone suggest a way to time a program on windows? I can't use sys/time.h. Thanks for any advice.

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>

int main ( void )
{
  unsigned long i;
  clock_t s, e;
  s = clock();
  for ( i = 0; i < 100000000; i++ );
  e = clock();
  printf ( "%d\n", e - s );
  return 0;
}

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[cq1cts4]

I find QueryPerformanceCounter() together with QueryPerformanceFrequency() quite powerfull, you get resolution of microseconds, but is very slow, which is ok for taking the stamp at the beginning and end. for smaller resolutions (granularity 10ms - 40ms, depends on the system) I use GetTickCount(), is about 10-20x faster (again, depends on the system).

more information in Win32 developer help in your compiler

[xds4lx]

If you can why not just use a profiler like the one in MSCV (non introduction edition)? Or look into intel's VTUNE profiler. G++ has gprof look into it.