start_stopwatch()  

Start internal stopwatch

Synopsis

start_stopwatch(void)

Description

Call this function to reset a stopwatch. The stopwatch uses the times() function and the "struct tms" from sys/times.h.

Usage

Call start_stopwatch() to reset the stopwatch before executing the task you want to time, and read_stopwatch() or read_stopwatch_string() to read the elapsed time afterwards.

Revision

1.0  29/10-96   Ulrik Kjems

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