[boost] Re: timer classes

From: Beman Dawes (beman_at_[hidden])
Date: 1999-07-01 11:15:15

At 09:50 AM 7/1/99 +0000, Sean A Corfield wrote:

>Beman Dawes <beman_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>[One concern is that the message written to cout by the job_timer
class]
>
>I can't believe you've tied a class to cout! The output stream
should be a 
>parameter (at worst) but it would be better to arrange that only the
timing 
>values were streamable (so the destructor writes only the value of
elapsed() 
>to the stream specified to the job_timer - at construction time?).

Seems like there are a couple of issues coming forward for job_timer
and progress_display:

   1)  They are tied to cout.
   2)  They assume non-GUI environment.

I will try to address both of these.

--Beman

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