NOTES The C standard allows for arbitrary values at the start of the program; subtract the value returned from a call to clock() at the start of the program to get maximum portability. Note that the time can wrap around. On a 32bit system where CLOCKS_PER_SEC equals 1000000 this function will return the same value approximately every 72 minutes. On several other implementations, the value returned by clock() also includes the times of any children whose status has been collected via wait()(or another wait-type call). Linux does notinclude the times of waited-for children in the value returned by clock(). The times() function, which explicitly returns (separate) information about the caller and its children, may be preferable.
#include<time.h>#include<stdio.h>int main(void){clock_t t_start;/* start time when test starts */clock_t t_end;/* end time when test ends */ t_start =clock();/* get start time *//* test code */ t_end =clock();/* get end time *//* display result */printf("time: %.3f s/n",(double)(t_end-t_start)/CLOCKS_PER_SEC);return 0;}