DZone Snippets is a public source code repository. Easily build up your personal collection of code snippets, categorize them with tags / keywords, and share them with the world
Code Execution Timer
These two bits of code can be used to record & output the execution time of a piece of code in microseconds. NOTE: The functions used here are only available on BSD-like systems (I think).
/* Put this line at the top of the file: */
#include <sys/time.h>
/* Put this right before the code you want to time: */
struct timeval timer_start, timer_end;
gettimeofday(&timer_start, NULL);
/* Put this right after the code you want to time: */
gettimeofday(&timer_end, NULL);
double timer_spent = timer_end.tv_sec - timer_start.tv_sec + (timer_end.tv_usec - timer_start.tv_usec) / 1000000.0;
printf("Time spent: %.6f\n", timer_spent);
