Hi Bill.

17-Apr-04 02:37:01, Bill Birrell wrote to Jasen Betts


 BB> Hi Jasen,

 >> using times() would be more apropriate than clock() in
 >> environemnts that support it.

 BB> I gave up recommending the use of functions that are not in the
 BB> standard libraries, or covered in the ISO standard for the the C
 BB> language because people gave me such a hard time about them.

:)    times is POSIX which is almost as good as ANSI

 BB> says no such thing about clock(). It returns the implementation's
 BB> best approximation is what it says.

best approximation of what though?

 BB> If that's not good enough, c'est la vie

 BB>     times() may be useful, but it is not ANSI standard.

 BB> Of course there is the same problem with the spawn() or fork() or
 BB> exec()

The best solution my be to build the processes to be timed into the same
program as the call to clock. (or vice versa)

 -=> Bye <=-

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