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

Matlab flavored!

tic starts a stopwatch timer to measure performance. The function records the internal time at execution of the tic command. Display the elapsed time with the toc function.

#include 
#include 
#include 
using namespace std;

clock_t START_TIMER;

clock_t tic()
{
    return START_TIMER = clock();
}

void toc(clock_t start = START_TIMER)
{
    cout
        << "Elapsed time: "
        << (clock() - start) / (double)CLOCKS_PER_SEC << "s"
        << endl;
}

int main()
{
    tic();
    this_thread::sleep_for(2s);
    toc();

    return 0;
}