Measuring short times

[Dennis Clarke]

> Yeah, I'm a programming newbie, so sorry if it's a stupid question.
>
> I need to measure a time shorter than 1 milisecond (I need to measure
> 500 nanoseconds to be exact), but <time.h> seems to give me only the
> option to have miliseconds. Can someone give me some tip of how to do
> that?
>
> By the way, I'm using a GCC port for Windows that came with Devcpp,
> maybe it's an useful information.
>
> Thank you very much for the help :)

http://www.blastwave.org/man/gethrtime_3C.html

you need Solaris for that to work.



Dennis