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Subject: [Boost-commit] svn:boost r49824 - sandbox/chrono/libs/chrono/doc
From: bdawes_at_[hidden]
Date: 2008-11-18 11:58:15

Author: bemandawes
Date: 2008-11-18 11:58:14 EST (Tue, 18 Nov 2008)
New Revision: 49824
URL: http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/49824

Log:
Chrono: commit timer.html work-in-progress before renaming
Text files modified:
sandbox/chrono/libs/chrono/doc/timer.html | 91 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
1 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

Modified: sandbox/chrono/libs/chrono/doc/timer.html
==============================================================================
--- sandbox/chrono/libs/chrono/doc/timer.html (original)
+++ sandbox/chrono/libs/chrono/doc/timer.html 2008-11-18 11:58:14 EST (Tue, 18 Nov 2008)
@@ -5,29 +5,75 @@
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
-<title>Boost System Timers</title>
+<title>Chrono: Process Times</title>
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../doc/html/minimal.css">
</head>

<body>

-<h1><img border="0" src="../../../boost.png" align="center" width="277" height="86">
-Boost System Timers<br>
-<a name="Introduction">Introduction</a></h1>
+<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="277">
+<a href="../../../index.html">
+<img src="../../../boost.png" alt="boost.png (6897 bytes)" align="middle" width="277" height="86" border="0"></a></td>
+ <td width="337" align="middle">
+ <font size="7">Chrono: Process Times</font>
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" bgcolor="#D7EEFF" width="100%">
+ <tr>
+ <td>Boost Home    <a href="index.html">
+ Library Home</a></td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<table border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111" align="right">
+ <tr>
+ <td width="100%" bgcolor="#D7EEFF" align="center">
+ <i><b>Contents</b></i></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="100%" bgcolor="#E8F5FF">
+ Introduction<br>
+ Examples<br>
+ Reference material<br>
+ Acknowledgements
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="100%" bgcolor="#D7EEFF" align="center">
+ <b><i>Headers</i></b></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td width="100%" bgcolor="#E8F5FF">
+ <boost/chrono/chrono.hpp><br>
+ <boost/chrono/timer.hpp><br>
+ <a href="../../../boost/chrono/process_times.hpp">
+ <boost/chrono/process_times.hpp></a><br>
+ <boost/ratio.hpp></td>
+ </tr>
+</table>
+
+<h2><a name="Introduction">Introduction</a></h2>
<p>Knowing how long a program takes to execute is useful in both test and
production environments. It is also helpful if such timing information is broken down
-into wall clock time, CPU time spent by the user, and CPU time spent by the
+into real (wall clock) time, CPU time spent by the user, and CPU time spent by the
operating system servicing user requests.</p>
-<p>The Boost System Library's timer components provide that information:</p>
+<p>The Boost Chrono Library's process times components provide that information:</p>
<ul>
   <li>At the highest level, class <code>run_timer</code> provides a
   complete run time reporting package that can be invoked in a single line of
   code.<br>
 </li>
- <li>At a middle level, class <code>timer</code> provides a widely useful timer
- object abstraction.<br>
+ <li>At a middle level, class <code>process_timer</code> provides a process timer useful
+ when the automatic reporting of <code>run_timer</code> isn't desired.<br>
 </li>
- <li>At the lowest level, two <code>times</code> functions provide
- thin wrappers around the operating system's process timer API.</li>
+ <li>At the lowest level, <code>process_clock</code> provides a
+ thin wrapper around the operating system's process timer API. For POSIX-like
+ systems, that's the <code>times()</code> function, while for Windows, it's the
+ <code>GetProcessTimes()</code> function.</li>
</ul>

<h2><a name="Example">Example</a>s</h2>
@@ -35,12 +81,12 @@
<p>Here is the run_timer_example.cpp
program supplied with the Boost System library:</p>
<blockquote>
- <pre>#include <boost/system/timer.hpp>
+ <pre>#include <boost/chrono/run_timer.hpp>
#include <cmath>

int main()
{
- boost::system::run_timer t;
+ boost::chrono::run_timer t;

   for ( long i = 0; i < 10000000; ++i )
     std::sqrt( 123.456L ); // burn some time
@@ -48,6 +94,8 @@
   return 0;
}</pre>
</blockquote>
+<p><b><span style="background-color: #FFFF00">Warning: The remainder of this
+page is totally out-of-date</span></b></p>
<p>When the <code>run_timer t</code> object is created, it starts timing. When
it is destroyed at the end of the program, its destructor stops the timer and
displays timing information on cout.</p>
@@ -393,12 +441,12 @@
       <td width="75%"><b><i>Replacement value</i></b></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
- <td width="25%" align="center"><code>%w</code></td>
- <td width="75%"><code>wall()</code></td>
+ <td width="25%" align="center"><code>%r</code></td>
+ <td width="75%"><code>real</code></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td width="25%" align="center"><code>%u</code></td>
- <td width="75%"><code>user()</code></td>
+ <td width="75%"><code>user</code></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td width="25%" align="center"><code>%s</code></td>
@@ -406,12 +454,12 @@
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td width="25%" align="center"><code>%t</code></td>
- <td width="75%"><code>user()+system()</code></td>
+ <td width="75%"><code>user + system</code></td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
       <td width="25%" align="center"><code>%p</code></td>
- <td width="75%">The percentage of <code>wall()</code> represented by by <code>
- user()+system()</code></td>
+ <td width="75%">The percentage of <code>real</code> represented by by <code>
+ user + system</code></td>
     </tr>
   </table>
   <p><i>Returns:</i> <code>ec</code></p>
@@ -420,10 +468,9 @@

<hr>
<p>Last revised:
-19 January, 2008</p>
-<p>© Copyright Beman Dawes, 2006</p>
-<p>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
-file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
+18 November, 2008</p>
+<p>© Copyright Beman Dawes, 2006, 2008</p>
+<p>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. See
<a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">www.boost.org/ LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)</p>

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