gabriel rosenkoetter on Fri, 23 Feb 2001 21:53:06 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Programming Question


On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 09:54:34PM -0500, Charles Stack wrote:
> Anybody know how to get the equivalent of Window's GetTickCount() method
> under Linux in C or C++?  Need millisecond resolution and time.h doesn't
> appear to give us the resolution we need.

Have a look at times(2).

(Used this to time some cache stress testing stuff for a computer
architecture course last year; it's vaguely POSIX... or, at least,
it also exists on Solaris 2.6 and NetBSD 1.4R-or-so. Ah, man page
says "SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3", so it's all over the
place!)

       ~ g r @ eclipsed.net


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