[boost] Re: timer classes

From: Andy Glew (glew_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-06-30 11:42:32

How about using the SI (System International) abbreviation
for "seconds" - "S" - true for all languages?
-----Original Message-----
From: Beman Dawes <beman_at_[hidden]>
To: Boost.org mailing list <boost_at_[hidden]>
Date: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 8:07 AM
Subject: [boost] timer classes

>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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