Code for caluculating the execution time of C program

[Kameswari]

Hi,
I require code for caluculating the execution time of C program .Can anybody help regarding this.

Regards,
Kameswari

[Banfa]

Well that rather depends on what operating system you use. On a multitasking operating system like *nix and Windows (and several others) there is no generic way to measure the execution time from the program itself. You can measure the execution start time and the execution stop time however stop - start is not the execution time of the program. It is the execution time of the program plus all the time it was suspend while something else executed.

The only real way to get program execution time on a multi-tasking system is if the operating system provides a way to find out.

[shakov]

Under Linux you can use the time command or for the detailed measure of time consumption of every procedure you can use the program gprof. See:
http://kuscsik.blogspot.com/2007/08/...using-gcc.html

[gpraghuram]

Hi,
I require code for caluculating the execution time of C program .Can anybody help regarding this.

Regards,
Kameswari

Hi ,
If u need to calculate execution time of the c code...u can use time function
The pseudo code will be like this

int main()
{
time_t t1,t2;
time(&t1);
//<your function goes here>
time(&t2);
diff_time(t2,t1)//check for function name
}
 

Thanks
Raghuram

[sathishc58]

Hi Kamesari

This is sathish. What Raghu stated is fine.

Even me too had a requirement. I tried the program with difftime() and clock() and both were not giving the correct result.


I tried it under Sun Os. But whatever program raghu has given is correct.

Thanks & Regards
Sathish KUmar

[anu3012]

hi gpraghuram,
plz give me the code in C required for calculating the time for execution of any function. i m working in linux. the time( ) system call gives the time value in sec. but i need in milisec,or microsec...
help me out

[gpraghuram]

hi gpraghuram,
plz give me the code in C required for calculating the time for execution of any function. i m working in linux. the time( ) system call gives the time value in sec. but i need in milisec,or microsec...
help me out

Hi,
I dont know C-Library functions available which can give the execution time in Milli/micro seconds.

Raghuram