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From: Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>
To: Mehran Rezaei <mehran@cs.unt.edu>
Cc: C news group <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>,
	gcc news group <linux-gcc@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: timing
Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 19:20:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aapbr7$kvf$2@main.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CCFD6BA.1D667C11@cs.unt.edu>


Mehran Rezaei wrote:

> For the sake of performance analysis of some programs, I am using
> clock() function call. I am running the programs on a linux box (Redhat
> 7.2, and my machine is i686).
> However, I am not getting the correct results as I expected. Perhaps I
> miss something necessary for using timing function calls.

[snip]

> To my understanding both printfs should at least show 10 seconds
> (because of "sleep(10)"). But they do not.

clock() reports the amount of CPU time used by the program. sleep()
will use negligible CPU time (probably too small to measure).

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements@virgin.net>

       reply	other threads:[~2002-05-01 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3CCFD6BA.1D667C11@cs.unt.edu>
2002-05-01 18:20 ` Glynn Clements [this message]
2002-05-01 11:51 timing Mehran Rezaei

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