Hi Bill.

14-Apr-04 16:51:00, Bill Birrell wrote to Darin McBride


 BB> Hi Darin,


 BB> Conceptually it is easy - just spawn or fork the program to be
 BB> timed, and do a clock() when it returns from the spawned program,
 BB> and Bob's your uncle - elapsed time in milliseconds (on this
 BB> machine) or whatever. As long as it is only comparing one with the
 BB> other, it is not necessary to demand perfect accuracy. Assume that
 BB> once compiled spawnl() will take roughly the same amount of time
 BB> for each instance

using times() would be more apropriate than clock() in environemnts that
support it. Also clock() doesn't count time spent in child processes in
some environments (like linux...)

 -=> Bye <=-

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