Re: [boost] High resolution time routines

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-03-22 10:53:05

At 10:12 PM 3/21/2001, Jeremy Siek wrote:

 >I agree that a high resolution timer is needed. One quick way to provide
 >this is just to use the various high resolution timers that already
 >exist... wrapping them with a common interface. And the best part is that
 >someone's already done this (in C). The Interval Performance Monitoring
 >(IPM) package does this. It is part of the PHiPAC high-speed matrix
 >multiplication package. IPM is portable to most unix's. Boostifying this
 >package could be a good place to start.

The proposal that Bill Kempf pointed out 
(http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/c-time/) is of special interest because it 
was put together by people active on the C language committee for possible 
inclusion in a future C standard.

That doesn't mean Boost shouldn't look at other proposals - even the C 
committee has looked at other proposals.  But in thinking about a 
boostified  C++ interface, it might be nice to coordinate with the C folks 
to avoid gratuitous conflicts.  I'll drop Marcus Kuhn an email to see if 
interest exists.

--Beman