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Hello everyone.
Im trying to make an application that it would be able to calculate the time of the execution in nanoseconds.
After using google for a while i found a lot of suggestions which most of them dont actually work(most of them are in miliseconds - at least what i found till now).
Can someone provide me a simple example of how i can do that, if it is possible, or a web page or article to read so i can do what i have to do.
Thank you
Use the clock() function from <ctime>.
And divide the difference in the number of ticks you find by CLOCKS_PER_SEC * 1e9 .
If you can use C++11 features, <chrono> has a great High Resolution timer....giving you the best of what your Operating System is capable of.
if you're on windows there's performance counter
Performance Counters
this won't actually give you execution time down to nanoseconds. if the original measurement doesn't have that level of resolution, you can't replace it mathematically. if the information isn't there to start with, it never will be.Quote:
Originally Posted by kspen
If your CPU runs at 1GHz, one clock cycle is one nanosecond. That means, you'll need something that basically counts CPU clock cycles, instead of an actual "timer". I am not aware of a way to do that on Windows/Linux.
Getting accurate microsecond precision is fairly difficult already.
Why do you need ns?
Time Stamp Counter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Make sure you understand all the caveats, such as multiple cores, variable clock speed and so on.
thank you for your answers guys!
Make sure you heed what Salem posted when doing this. There are all kinds of gotchas when using this in Windows based on the current model of CPU the system is using. I can't tell you how many times I've been bitten by this. Most modern quad-core processors will be fine but you will run into issues on earlier processors and pre-Vista OS's. You may even run into this outside of Windows although I have no experience to back that up.