Re: CPU time for Win32 & GNAT

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <17cd177c.0110120321.3077bccf@posting.google.com>, Gautier says...
>Does someone know how to obtain the CPU time (or a CPU
>duration...) for Win32 (under GNAT) in a simple way ?
>The program doesn't use tasking and no more resolution
>than the one of Duration is needed for time spans.
>I'm sure someone has a ready-made function in his/her toolbox...

There's probably some neat little trick out there (have you tried using bash?).

I believe the programatic way to do it depends on your OS. For NT-based OS's,
you can gather "performance information" from the registry. That is how the NT
task manager and perfmon gather their information. For Win9x OS's, you have to
do it in a completely different way (which doesn't work on NT).

The current version of the SETI@Home Service uses the NT performance information
to check to see if certian executables are running (so that it can stop SETI
processing). If you download the source distribution, you can look at how it is
done. There's also an NT performance information helper package in there you can
use under the GPL, but its in a primitive state right now.

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