I have a program for class, and I need to implement a timer, just like a stopwatch, time the milliseconds between displaying something and the user inputting something. Someone told me to call gettimeofday() twice and take the difference. I don't know how to implement that though. Any other ideas?
Maybe you would be interested in the standard function clock().
this has been posted quite a few times recently, please search.
Note also that using successive reads of "current time" [whichever variant of such function you use] is wasteful - there are functions in all modern OS's to perform some sort of delay, such as usleep() in Linux and Sleep() in Windows.
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Last edited by dwks; 01-18-2008 at 05:00 PM.
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