"Silex" <silex0r@gmail.com> wrote in message news:bfc703c0605210356v38a23f9haccc359223fb7a20@mail.gmail.com...
The goal is that timer_new.hpp is then renamed to timer.hpp and replaces the current header.
That's fine with me, assuming documentation is updated as needed. The other timing related issue that I've procrastinated about for years is boost/progress.hpp. Class progress_timer suffers from two problems: 1) Inconsistent results depending on operating system. 2) Doesn't always give enough information for its intended use - timing program execution. Problem (1) will be fixed by your changes to timer, IIUC. As we speak I'm working on a solution to (2). The intent is to leave progress_timer as is, since it does meet some needs, and since there is some small amount of existing code that depends on its output format, and add a new header, perhaps called process_times.hpp. It will contain functions and/or classes that reports process wall-clock time, kernel-time, and user-time, using Windows GetProcessTimes and POSIX times(), etc. --Beman