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I know this is probably the most shit program you've ever seen, but it is all I am currently capable of. This was made completely from scratch, without looking anything up. It took me about 20 minutes (had some problems with the logic) but I got it to work technically like a timer, although it is very inefficient (even I know this).

But I don't know how to make it like a C++ pro would.. any suggestions on improvement?

Here is the pastebin code source: HERE

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At first thought, use boost it has a simple way to manage time.
edit..
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/doc...e_duration

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...or

PHP Code


<?php 
clock_t start = clock();
// ...
clock_t end = clock();
double elapsed = double(end - start) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC; 


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...or

PHP Code


<?php 
clock_t start = clock();
// ...
clock_t end = clock();
double elapsed = double(end - start) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC; 


Can you elaborate on that? Please, I am a beginner. Explain to me what that does, and how I can replace my code with it.

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Can you elaborate on that? Please, I am a beginner. Explain to me what that does, and how I can replace my code with it.

What is there to elaborate on? The code is self explanatory. It takes the current measurement of time, // ... indicates some kind of code that takes time to execute, and an end measurement of time is stored in a variable. To find the time elapsed, it's the delta between these 2 calculated values, and the macro CLOCKS_PER_SEC is a defined value for the "clocks per second", thus elapsed is a measurement of elapsed seconds.