Timing a for loop

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am trying to time a for loop for different values but I can't get my for loop to stop and with the timing function I am using is it measuring in milliseconds or something else?
#include< iostream >
#include< iomanip >
#include< cstdlib >
#include< ctime >
#include< cstdio >
#include< fstream >

const int vSize = 1;
using namespace std;



int main()
{
 
   
   
 
   
    //Random numbers to be sorted
    int vec[vSize]={50};//,50000//,100000,200000,400000};

    //Declare the clock variables
    clock_t start,finish;
    clock_t startAll;



   
    //Declare and initialize all the variables
  double duration;
   
    //Declare the streams and the input and output files
    ifstream inFile;
  ofstream outFile;

    inFile.open("input1.txt");
  outFile.open("output1.txt");

int Sum=0;
    //Test the algorithms
    start=clock();
    outFile<<"Numbers to be sorted"<< endl;
        for(int i =0; i < vec[vSize]; i++)
        {
              Sum++;
              cout<< Sum;
        }

       





   



         
         
         
          //Switch statement to start the different sort algorithms
       

        finish=clock();
        duration=(double)(finish-start)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC;
        cout<<"          "<< setw(4)<< duration;
       
   
          finish=clock();
        duration=(double)(finish-start)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC;
        cout<<"Total Duration"<< duration<< endl;
    return 0;
}//end of main

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how come when I code it this way it only loops to the 2nd value in the array?

#include< iostream >
#include< iomanip >
#include< cstdlib >
#include< ctime >
#include< cstdio >
#include< fstream >

const int vSize = 2;
using namespace std;



int main()
{
 
   
   
 
   
   
    int vec[vSize]={500,200};//,50000//,100000,200000,400000};

    //Declare the clock variables
    clock_t start,finish;
    clock_t startAll;



   
    //Declare and initialize all the variables
  double duration;
   
    //Declare the streams and the input and output files
    ifstream inFile;
  ofstream outFile;

    inFile.open("input1.txt");
  outFile.open("A:/output1.txt");

int Sum=0;
    //Test the algorithms
    start=clock();
    outFile<<"Numbers to be sorted"<< endl;
        for(int i =0; i < vec[vSize-1] ; i++)
        {
              Sum++;
              outFile<< Sum<<endl;
        }

       





   



         
         
         
          //Switch statement to start the different sort algorithms
       

        finish=clock();
        duration=(double)(finish-start)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC;
        cout<<"          "<< setw(4)<< duration;
       
   
          finish=clock();
        duration=(double)(finish-start)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC;
        cout<<"Total Duration"<< duration<< endl;
    return 0;
}//end of main

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I can't seem to keep my eyes open... aw 5 o'clock in the morning...

this piece of code will have to do for now, maybe it's a little help.

It's a class from my renderengine that initializes and utilizes a high precision timer if the hardware supports it, otherwise it uses a lousy multimedia timer...

>>for(int i =0; i < vec[vSize]; i++)

That looks pretty suspect. Perhaps you meant:

>> for(int i =0; i < vSize; i++)

Still, doesn't look like much of a sorting algorithm. :)

clock() returns the time in milliseconds, so by dividing by CLOCKS_PER_SEC (ie:1000) would return a number in seconds much too large to tell you anything useful. In other words, don't divide.

In this line of code (in your first post):

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for(int i =0; i < vec[vSize]; i++)

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vSize = 1, but your int array holds only one element, which is at position 0. vec[0] is what you want, although in this case you don't really need an array.

In your second post, you use vec[vSize-1], which in this case is always 1. vec[1] points at the 2nd value in the array.

So basically you need to remember that array indexes are zero based. Don't ever use the size as an index to an array, and if you want all elements start your index at 0.

Finally, if you want to run a loop for each number in your vec array, you'll probably want to do 2 loops, with the new outer loop being the index to vec.

How would you code the outer loop?

In pseudo code:

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for int vecIndex = 0 to (vSize - 1) do:
    for int i = 1 to vec[vecIndex] do:
        Sum++ ... whatever ...

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Notice how the inner loop counts from 0 to whatever value is in the vec array at the current index, and the outer loop makes sure that happens for each value in the vec array.