Re: [Boost-users] boost timers

On Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:24:39 +0100, Mark Wyszomierski wrote:

Hi,

Do any of the boost timer methods allow elapsed time to be measured in a separate thread? Something like:

int main() { boost_thread timer; timer.Start();

while () { // some timeout. sleep(5000);

// check how much time has passed. cout << timer.GetElapsedTime() << endl; }

return 0; }

Thanks

boost::timer has that functionality, but as you probably don't want, it will give you effective cpu time usage, not real time passed. You could use boost::xtime_get(...) twice and compare the difference in time. See http://www.boost.org/doc/html/boost/xtime.html for more information. -- Jonas Hansson