Re: [Boost-users] [Chrono]

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Chrono]
From: Roland Bock (rbock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-04-14 14:30:29

Howard Hinnant wrote:
> On Apr 14, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Roland Bock wrote:
>
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> forgive me for asking the obvious, but I fail to see how to get timing
>> information from the thread_clock?
>>
>> I can call thread_clock::now() to get time_point objects, e.g.
>>
>>   boost::chrono::thread_clock threadClock;
>>
>>   boost::chrono::thread_clock::time_point start = threadClock.now();
>>   [...]
>>   boost::chrono::thread_clock::time_point end = threadClock.now();
>>
>>
>> But how do I get to the actual CPU milliseconds (or other units?) used
>> by the current thread between end and start?
>>     
>
> You can use boost::duration_cast to convert the thread_clock::duration into whatever units you desire.  This facility will round down (truncate) if an exact conversion is not possible.  Ex:
>   
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Great! Thanks for all the details!

Regards,

Roland