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

Windows only: (The Linux tag was added after I posted this answer)

You can use GetTickCount() to get the number of milliseconds that have elapsed since the system was started.

long int before = GetTickCount();

// Perform time-consuming operation

long int after = GetTickCount();