Elapsed time of running a C program
- by yCalleecharan
Hi, I would like to know what lines of C code to add to a program so that it tells me the total time that the program takes to run. I guess there should be counter initialization near the beginning of main and one after the main function ends. Is the right header clock.h?
Thanks a lot...
Update I have a Win Xp machine. Is it just adding clock() at the beginning and another clock() at the end of the program? Then I can estimate the time difference. Yes, you're right it's time.h.
Here's my code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <share.h>
#include <time.h>
void f(long double fb[], long double fA, long double fB);
int main() {
clock_t start, end;
start = clock();
const int ARRAY_SIZE = 11;
long double* z = (long double*) malloc(sizeof (long double) * ARRAY_SIZE);
int i;
long double A, B;
if (z == NULL) {
printf("Out of memory\n");
exit(-1);
}
A = 0.5;
B = 2;
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE; i++) {
z[i] = 0;
}
z[1] = 5;
f(z, A, B);
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE; i++)
printf("z is %.16Le\n", z[i]);
free(z);
z = NULL;
end = clock();
printf("Took %ld ticks\n", end-start);
printf("Took %f seconds\n", (double)(end-start)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC);
return 0;
}
void f(long double fb[], long double fA, long double fB) {
fb[0] = fb[1]* fA;
fb[1] = fb[1] - 1;
return;
}
Some errors with MVS2008:
testim.c(16) : error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before 'const'
testim.c(18) :error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before 'type'
testim.c(20) :error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before 'type'
testim.c(21) :error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before 'type'
testim.c(23) :error C2065: 'z' : undeclared identifier
testim.c(23) :warning C4047: '==' : 'int' differs in levels of indirection from 'void *'
testim.c(28) : error C2065: 'A' : undeclared identifier
testim.c(28) : warning C4244: '=' : conversion from 'double' to 'int', possible loss of data
and it goes to 28 errors. Note that I don't have any errors/warnings without your clock codes.
LATEST NEWS: I unfortunately didn't get a good reply here. But after a search on Google, the code is working. Here it is:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>
#include <share.h>
#include <time.h>
void f(long double fb[], long double fA, long double fB);
int main() {
clock_t start = clock();
const int ARRAY_SIZE = 11;
long double* z = (long double*) malloc(sizeof (long double) * ARRAY_SIZE);
int i;
long double A, B;
if (z == NULL) {
printf("Out of memory\n");
exit(-1);
}
A = 0.5;
B = 2;
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE; i++) {
z[i] = 0;
}
z[1] = 5;
f(z, A, B);
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE; i++)
printf("z is %.16Le\n", z[i]);
free(z);
z = NULL;
printf("Took %f seconds\n", ((double)clock()-start)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC);
return 0;
}
void f(long double fb[], long double fA, long double fB) {
fb[0] = fb[1]* fA;
fb[1] = fb[1] - 1;
return;
}
Cheers
