Re: More accurate time feedback

2001-10-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:29:39PM -0500, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: Is there a way to get a more accurate time value, preferably to a nanosecond, using the system clock? I need to write a program that needs to output the time it takes various sorting algprithms to sort various numbers of

Re: More accurate time feedback

2001-10-25 Thread Andrew Agno
Dave Sherohman writes: On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:29:39PM -0500, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: to a nanosecond, using the system clock? I need to write a program that needs to output the time it takes various sorting algprithms to sort various numbers of integers. For smaller numbers of

Re: More accurate time feedback

2001-10-25 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:06:29AM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote: Dave Sherohman writes: faster than a quicksort.) If you are required to use a small data set, just perform more repetitions to get measurable data. This also allows you to obtain statistics like standard deviations and

RE: More accurate time feedback

2001-10-25 Thread Huebel, David
-Original Message- From: Dave Sherohman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 12:58 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: More accurate time feedback On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:06:29AM -0700, Andrew Agno wrote: Dave Sherohman writes: faster

Re: More accurate time feedback

2001-10-24 Thread dman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 06:29:39PM -0500, Ian Patrick Thomas wrote: | Is there a way to get a more accurate time value, preferably to a | nanosecond, using the system clock? I need to write a program that needs to | output the time it takes various sorting algprithms to sort various numbers