Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:49:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:49:20 -0500 Received: from dns.toxicfilms.tv ([150.254.37.24]:53162 "EHLO dns.toxicfilms.tv") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:49:19 -0500 Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:58:16 +0100 (CET) From: Maciej Soltysiak To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: timing an application Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, being inspired by some book about optimizing c++ code i decided to do timing of functions i wrote. I am using gettimeofday to set two timeval structs and calculate the time between them. But the results depend heavily on the load, also i reckon that this is an innacurate timing. Any ideas on timing a function, or a block of code? Maybe some kernel timers or something. Regards, Maciej Soltysiak -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- VERSION: 3.1 GIT/MU d-- s:- a-- C++ UL++++$ P L++++ E- W- N- K- w--- O! M- V- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP- t+ 5-- X+ R tv- b DI+ D---- G e++>+++ h! y? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/