[boost] Re: faster shared_ptr?

From: Greg Colvin (gcolvin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2000-02-02 16:00:26

From: Greg Colvin <gcolvin_at_[hidden]>
> From: Miki Jovanovic <miki_at_[hidden]>
> > "greg colvin" <gcolvi-_at_[hidden]> wrote: 
> > > long start = System.currentTimeMillis();
> > 
> > vs.
> > 
> > > clock_t start = clock();
> > 
> > MSDN says:
> > 
> > "clock() returns the number of clock ticks of elapsed processor time."
> > 
> > vs.
> > 
> > currentTimeMillis() returns the difference, measured in milliseconds,
> > between the current time and midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC.
> > 
> > Would this processor time vs real time make much of a difference here?
> 
> No, I print the elapsed time in milliseconds:
> 
>    printf("fill vector: %ld\n",
>           ((long)clock() - start)*1000/CLOCKS_PER_SEC

Never mind -- I see what you mean.  I doubt it matters on my
system, but I'll recode my C++ test to use real time.  Thanks.