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Started by Zabbas September 19, 2007 02:42 PM

4 comments, last by Null and Void 16 years, 9 months ago

Zabbas

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September 19, 2007 02:42 PM

Hello, I just started to do some more advanced stuff under Linux, and maybe someone could point me in right direction. What I want is to have a high resolution timer. Right now I'm using "ftime" calls to calculate time, but it gives me resolution to 1/1000 sec. Does someone know a way to have higher resolution timer under Linux? Regards...

Sander

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September 19, 2007 03:53 PM

I know the gstreamer library internally works on nanoseconds, so at least it's possible. I don't know of any standard library that supplies these high resolution timers though.

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Wolfdog

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September 19, 2007 04:14 PM

The gettimeofday function will give you a timeval structure. That structure can be accurate down to microseconds, but i am not sure if gettimeofday is that accurate.