micro time

[Orca]

Okay so I have a task parsing a bit of data every fraction of a milisecond. Its going to do about 200,000 of these tasks (parsing a data file into XML that is larger than 5mb) Now I know I COULD check the clock, but that only reads out in seconds (@SEC)... And would give a very unaccurate measure of how long it might take

(time to process one line) * totalLines = totalTime

I COULD go about it by counting how many it can process in one second

totalLines / (numberInOneSecond) = totalSeconds

But that would require extra processing I really don't feel like adding, as it may harm performance (hey when you compound .5 ms 2 million times it adds up... (I believe it tacks on like 15 minutes? maybe my math is off...

(0.5*(2*10^7) / 1000)/60 = n minutes?)

Anyhow I'd like to be able to do something like

$startTime = microTime()

while 1

...

wend

$endTime = microTime()

$executeTime = $endTime - $startTime

(microTime() could aslo be @microTime)

Is there a way to do this?

[LxP]

Do the TimerInit() and TimerDiff() functions satisfy your needs?

[Orca]

Do the TimerInit() and TimerDiff() functions satisfy your needs?

That works splendidly, I'm suprised I missed it... Guess I was too caught up in looking for my familiar microTimer functions