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21<h1><a class="anchor" name="timer">Using timers to measure execution time </a></h1>In this example we are using the Real_Timer class to measure the execution time of a simple program. The Real_Timer class is included in the itmisc library.<p>
22<div class="fragment"><pre class="fragment"><span class="preprocessor">#include &lt;itpp/itbase.h&gt;</span>
23
24<span class="keyword">using namespace </span>itpp;
25
26<span class="comment">//These lines are needed for use of cout and endl</span>
27<span class="keyword">using</span> std::cout;
28<span class="keyword">using</span> std::endl;
29
30<span class="keywordtype">int</span> main()
31{
32  <span class="comment">//Declare the scalars used:</span>
33  <span class="keywordtype">long</span> i, sum, N;
34
35  <span class="comment">//Declare tt as an instance of the timer class:</span>
36  Real_Timer tt;
37
38  <span class="comment">//Initiate the variables:</span>
39  N = 1000000;
40  sum = 0;
41
42  <span class="comment">//Start and reset the timer:</span>
43  tt.tic();
44
45  <span class="comment">//Do some processing</span>
46  <span class="keywordflow">for</span> (i = 0; i &lt; N; i++) {
47    sum += i;
48  }
49
50  <span class="comment">// Print the elapsed time</span>
51  tt.toc_print();
52
53  <span class="comment">//Print the result of the processing:</span>
54  cout &lt;&lt; <span class="stringliteral">"The sum of all integers from 0 to "</span> &lt;&lt; N - 1 &lt;&lt; <span class="stringliteral">" equals "</span> &lt;&lt; sum &lt;&lt; endl;
55
56  <span class="comment">//Exit program:</span>
57  <span class="keywordflow">return</span> 0;
58
59}
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61When you run this program, the output will look something like this:<p>
62<div class="fragment"><pre class="fragment">Elapsed time = 0.000797055 seconds
63The sum of all integers from 0 to 999999 equals 1783293664
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