Calculating time difference

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Hey. I want to calculate the running time of the code.
Lets say i have 2 dates i want to calculate the difference in milliseconds or microseconds.

What is the best way to do it?

Posted 8-Nov-12 0:02am

missak boyajian

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CPallini 8-Nov-12 6:07am

It depends on the format of your dates. You should give us more details.

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Jochen Arndt · Accepted Answer · 2012-11-08T03:32:00

You did not say which operating system you are using. With Windows, the performance counter is the best choice.

Here is a small class using the performance counter that can be used to measure code execution time:

// MyTimer.h
class CMyTimer
{
public:
    CMyTimer(bool bStart = false);
    
    bool		Start();
    double		GetElapsedTime() const;
    inline DWORD 	GetElapsedTimeMS() const
    { return static_cast<DWORD>(1E3 * GetElapsedTime()); }
    inline void		Stop() { m_qwStartTime.QuadPart = 0LL; }
    inline bool		IsStarted() const { return m_qwStartTime.QuadPart != 0LL; }
    inline LONGLONG	GetStartTime() const { return m_qwStartTime.QuadPart; }
    inline LONGLONG	GetFrequency() const { return s_qwPerfFreq.QuadPart; }
protected:
    LARGE_INTEGER	m_qwStartTime;
private:
    static LARGE_INTEGER s_qwPerfFreq;
};

// MyTimer.cpp
#include "MyTimer.h"

/*static*/ LARGE_INTEGER CMyTimer::s_qwPerfFreq = { 0 };

CMyTimer::CMyTimer(bool bStart /*= false*/)
{
    m_qwStartTime.QuadPart = 0LL;
    if (bStart)
        Start();
}

bool CMyTimer::Start(void)
{
    // Get performance counter frequency once with first call.
    if (0LL == s_qwPerfFreq.QuadPart)
    	::QueryPerformanceFrequency(&s_qwPerfFreq);
    return (0LL != s_qwPerfFreq.QuadPart && 
        ::QueryPerformanceCounter(&m_qwStartTime));
}

// Get elapsed time in seconds.
double CMyTimer::GetElapsedTime() const
{
    LARGE_INTEGER qwEndTime;
    return (IsStarted() && ::QueryPerformanceCounter(&qwEndTime)) ?
        static_cast<double>(qwEndTime.QuadPart - m_qwStartTime.QuadPart) / 
        static_cast<double>(s_qwPerfFreq.QuadPart) :
        0.0;
}

This can be used this way:

CMyTimer Timer(true);
// execute some time consuming code
_tprintf(_T("Code excution took %.5f seconds\n"), Timer.GetElapsedTime());