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Subject: Re: clock()

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 13:12:38 01/31/00

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We had a thread about this a week or two ago.
clock() isn't doing what it is said to do (at least Ms C++).
If you have NT, use GetProcessTimes() or GetThreadTimes() instead.
//Peter

On January 31, 2000 at 11:13:49, James Robertson wrote:

>I am trying to get my program to compute the cpu % used under windows, and was
>hoping I could simple divide the time returned by clock() (supposedly the cpu
>time) by GetTickCount() (the wall clock time). Unfortunately, _both_ functions
>return wall clock time. What function instead of clock() should I use to find
>the cpu time used?
>
>Thanks,
>James



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