Measuring time in a multithreaded C++ application

Question

I\'m writing an application using C++ and OpenMP and I want to reliably (and correctly) measure time of execution of parts of it. I have reviewed a few options (Windows, TDM-GC

Answer 1

You didn't mention boost::chrono. Same as C++11 chrono, but works with C++03 compiler.

Also, I cannot understand your hesitation about C++11. We are almost in 2015, and C++11 is not that new. It is even not the most recent standard. So, #include is a way to go.

Note however, that chrono is somewhat broken in Visual Studio 2013 Standard library implementation. I, personally, use std::chrono everywhere and swap it to boost::chrono via conditional defines and typedefs. Hope they'll fix it in Visual Studio Next.