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In article <1993Jan11.135908.11287@doug.cae.wisc.edu> ahrikenc@hprisc-12.cae.wisc.edu writes:

>
>Is there any way I can time an algorithm that is part of a Windows
>application?  For example, Unix allows finding the CPU time spent
>specifically on executing a given set of instructions.
>
>In Windows, I used the gettime function and computed the difference
>of the times at two points, and I get different results at different
>times, for the same points, the same data;  I believe this is due to
>the fact that Windows continuously executes other tasks in the 
>background, which explains the difference in the results.
>
>Please help! 
>
>
>

What you need is a good profiling tool.  This will show you the time
spent in the various parts of the application.  A very good one comes
with Microsoft C++, and I believe you get one with Borland C++, too.

Chris
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