The title is pretty much self-explanatory, I\'m killing myself over this simplicity.
Looked here, but it isn\'t much helpful.
If you want a timestamp to be compared between different processes, different languages (Java, C, C#), under GNU/Linux and Windows (Seven at least):
Java:
java.lang.System.nanoTime();
C GNU/Linux:
static int64_t hpms_nano() {
struct timespec t;
clock_gettime( CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &t );
int64_t nano = t.tv_sec;
nano *= 1000;
nano *= 1000;
nano *= 1000;
nano += t.tv_nsec;
return nano;
}
C Windows:
static int64_t hpms_nano() {
static LARGE_INTEGER ticksPerSecond;
if( ticksPerSecond.QuadPart == 0 ) {
QueryPerformanceFrequency( &ticksPerSecond );
}
LARGE_INTEGER ticks;
QueryPerformanceCounter( &ticks );
uint64_t nano = ( 1000*1000*10UL * ticks.QuadPart ) / ticksPerSecond.QuadPart;
nano *= 100UL;
return nano;
}
C#:
private static long nanoTime() {
long nano = 10000L * Stopwatch.GetTimestamp();
nano /= TimeSpan.TicksPerMillisecond;
nano *= 100L;
return nano;
}