Re: Timing things.

["Pascal Obry" <p.obry@der.edf.fr>]

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Joel VanLaven <jvanlaven@acm.org> a �crit dans le message :
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> I wrote a program as an assignment for an algorithms class in
> Ada95 that builds and operates on a variety of double-ended priority
> queues.  I am supposed to time certain operations (the build then the
> sum of the subsequent iterations of operations).  I am trying to use
> ada.real_time (rather than using some OS feature).  Problem is on my
> Windows98 PC using Gnat 3.11p I seem to be getting completely bogus and
> useless times. (granularity of at best 1/100 of a second though it looks
> more like 1/10 of a second)
>

This is true in GNAT 3.11 where the clock is implemented with standard
Windows
timing function.

In GNAT 3.12 the clock is implemented using a high resolution counter, this
gives the clock a resolution of about 1 micro-sec.

Pascal.