Easily measure elapsed time

Question

I am trying to use time() to measure various points of my program.

What I don\'t understand is why the values in the before and after are the same? I understand thi

Answer 1

#include 

void f() {
  using namespace std;
  clock_t begin = clock();

  code_to_time();

  clock_t end = clock();
  double elapsed_secs = double(end - begin) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC;
}

The time() function is only accurate to within a second, but there are CLOCKS_PER_SEC "clocks" within a second. This is an easy, portable measurement, even though it's over-simplified.