I also use clock():
Where is clock() defined?
check out man clock(3).
#include <time.h>
clock_t clock(void);
I just wanted to confirm this:
Using gettimeofday() will never give me a correct result because:
It is a user space app. which the scheduler can kick out anytime. Right?
Anything else ?
Yep. you want the time consumed by your app. not how much time passed in
real world.
Secondly, the resolution that i get thru gettimeofday() after conversion can
be upto microseconds. But I fear that is fake ?
A resolution upto millisecond is correct? This has something to do with the
sys clock / timing issues I read somewhere.
I don't know about that.
You might also try the times(2) sys-call, to get time spent in user/system
for the calling process.
Hayim.
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