[boost] timer classes

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-06-30 08:09:40

I would like to get some feedback on two timer and one progress
reporting class before going to the trouble of documenting them.  See
http://www.boost.org/libs/timer/

One concern is that the message written to cout by the job_timer
class is not internationalized.  While such a relatively minor class
doesn't justify a whole lot of internationalization machinery, is it
at least possible to do something better than the following?
[elapsed() returns a double]

using std::cout;
using std::ios_base;

namespace boost {

job_timer::~job_timer() {

  ios_base::fmtflags old_flags = cout.setf( ios_base::fixed,
                                            ios_base::floatfield );
  std::streamsize old_prec = cout.precision( 2 );

  cout << elapsed() << " seconds\n" << std::endl;
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

  cout.flags( old_flags );
  cout.precision( old_prec );
  } // ~job_timer
  
} // namespace boost

Comments appreciated!

--Beman

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