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Measuring Program Running Time in C/C++

As programmer, we usually want to measure the speed of our program in time (seconds).
C/C++ provides a useful function in timing. We can use the function

clock_t clock(void);

to get the CPU clock time. The idea is simple. Get the starting and the ending CPU clock
time then divide by constant CLOCKS_PER_SEC defined in the time.h header file.
Don’t forget to put #include <time.h>.

Source Code “time.cpp”


#include <iostream>
#include <time.h>

using namespace std;

int main()
{
clock_t start = clock();

// do something
//

clock_t ends = clock();


cout << "Running Time : "
<< (double) (ends - start) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC << endl;

return 0;
}

Creating a Simple Timer Program

We can modify the program above a little bit so that we can have a timer program that
measures the speed of the program. In order to create the timer, we should be able to call
other program inside our program. This can be done by this useful function

int system(const char *cmd)

which is declared in stdlib.h. Don’t forget to put #include <stdlib.h>.


Source Code “timer.cpp”

#include <iostream>
#include <time.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc,char **argv)


{
if (argc != 2)
{
// incorrect command line-argument
cout << "Usage : timer <program_name>" << endl;
return 1;
}

// start the clock


cout << "Starting " << argv[1] << "..." << endl;
clock_t start = clock();

// start program
system(argv[1]);

// program ends and stop clock


clock_t ends = clock();
cout << "Running Time : "
<< (double) (ends - start) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC << endl;

return 0;
}

Done by Stephanus Indra.


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