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Behaviour of CLOCKS_PER_SEC in different Operating Systems

I was running a cpp code , but one thing i noticed that on windows 7, CLOCKS_PER_SEC in C++ code gives 1000 while on linux fedora 16 it gives 1000000. Can anyone justify this behaviour?

Solution

  • What's to justify? CLOCKS_PER_SEC is implementation defined, and can be anything. All it indicates it the units returned by the function clock(). It doesn't even indicate the resolution of clock(): Posix requires it to be 1000000, regardless of the actual resolution. If Windows is returning 1000, that's probably not the actual resolution either. (I find that my Linux box has a resolution of 10ms, and my Windows box 15ms.)