`clock.3p` ( 3 )

отчет об использовании времени ЦП (report CPU time used)

Пролог (Prolog)

This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

Имя (Name)

clock — report CPU time used

Синопсис (Synopsis)

#include <time.h>

clock_t clock(void);

Описание (Description)

The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the ISO C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here and the ISO C standard is unintentional. This volume of POSIX.1‐2017 defers to the ISO C standard.

The clock() function shall return the implementation's best approximation to the processor time used by the process since the beginning of an implementation-defined era related only to the process invocation.

Возвращаемое значение (Return value)

To determine the time in seconds, the value returned by clock() should be divided by the value of the macro CLOCKS_PER_SEC. CLOCKS_PER_SEC is defined to be one million in <time.h>. If the processor time used is not available or its value cannot be represented, the function shall return the value (clock_t)-1.

Ошибки (Error)

No errors are defined.

The following sections are informative.

Примеры (Examples)

None.

Использование в приложениях (Application usage)

In programming environments where clock_t is a 32-bit integer type and CLOCKS_PER_SEC is one million, clock() will start failing in less than 36 minutes of processor time for signed clock_t, or 72 minutes for unsigned clock_t. Applications intended to be portable to such environments should use times() instead (or clock_gettime() with CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, if supported).

In order to measure the time spent in a program, clock() should be called at the start of the program and its return value subtracted from the value returned by subsequent calls. The value returned by clock() is defined for compatibility across systems that have clocks with different resolutions. The resolution on any particular system need not be to microsecond accuracy.

Обоснование (Rationale)

None.

Будущие направления (Future directions)