仅限Windows:(Linux标签是在我发布这个答案后添加的)

您可以使用GetTickCount()来获取自系统启动以来所经过的毫秒数。

long int before = GetTickCount();

// Perform time-consuming operation

long int after = GetTickCount();

这两个值相同的原因是因为您的长过程不需要那么长时间—不到一秒。你可以试着添加一个长循环(for (int i = 0;I < 100000000;i++);)在函数的末尾确保这是问题所在，然后我们可以从那里…

如果上面的情况是正确的，你将需要找到一个不同的系统函数(我知道你在linux上工作，所以我不能帮助你知道函数名称)来更准确地测量时间。我相信在linux中有一个类似于GetTickCount()的函数，你只需要找到它。

#include<time.h> // for clock
#include<math.h> // for fmod
#include<cstdlib> //for system
#include <stdio.h> //for delay

using namespace std;

int main()
{


   clock_t t1,t2;

   t1=clock(); // first time capture

   // Now your time spanning loop or code goes here
   // i am first trying to display time elapsed every time loop runs

   int ddays=0; // d prefix is just to say that this variable will be used for display
   int dhh=0;
   int dmm=0;
   int dss=0;

   int loopcount = 1000 ; // just for demo your loop will be different of course

   for(float count=1;count<loopcount;count++)
   {

     t2=clock(); // we get the time now

     float difference= (((float)t2)-((float)t1)); // gives the time elapsed since t1 in milliseconds

    // now get the time elapsed in seconds

    float seconds = difference/1000; // float value of seconds
    if (seconds<(60*60*24)) // a day is not over
    {
        dss = fmod(seconds,60); // the remainder is seconds to be displayed
        float minutes= seconds/60;  // the total minutes in float
        dmm= fmod(minutes,60);  // the remainder are minutes to be displayed
        float hours= minutes/60; // the total hours in float
        dhh= hours;  // the hours to be displayed
        ddays=0;
    }
    else // we have reached the counting of days
    {
        float days = seconds/(24*60*60);
        ddays = (int)(days);
        float minutes= seconds/60;  // the total minutes in float
        dmm= fmod(minutes,60);  // the rmainder are minutes to be displayed
        float hours= minutes/60; // the total hours in float
        dhh= fmod (hours,24);  // the hours to be displayed

    }

    cout<<"Count Is : "<<count<<"Time Elapsed : "<<ddays<<" Days "<<dhh<<" hrs "<<dmm<<" mins "<<dss<<" secs";


    // the actual working code here,I have just put a delay function
    delay(1000);
    system("cls");

 } // end for loop

}// end of main 

下面是一个简单的类，它将在指定的持续时间单位内打印它进入和离开作用域之间的持续时间:

#include <chrono>
#include <iostream> 

template <typename T>
class Benchmark
{
   public:
    Benchmark(std::string name) : start(std::chrono::steady_clock::now()), name(name) {}
    ~Benchmark()
    {
        auto end = std::chrono::steady_clock::now();
        T duration = std::chrono::duration_cast<T>(end - start);
        std::cout << "Bench \"" << name << "\" took: " << duration.count() << " units" << std::endl;
    }

   private:
    std::string name;
    std::chrono::time_point<std::chrono::steady_clock> start;

};
int main()
{
  Benchmark<std::chrono::nanoseconds> bench("for loop");
  for(int i = 0; i < 1001000; i++){}
}

使用示例:

int main()
{
  Benchmark<std::chrono::nanoseconds> bench("for loop");
  for(int i = 0; i < 100000; i++){}
}

输出:

Bench "for loop" took: 230656 units

#include <ctime>
#include <cstdio>
#include <iostream>
#include <chrono>
#include <sys/time.h>
using namespace std;
using namespace std::chrono;

void f1()
{
  high_resolution_clock::time_point t1 = high_resolution_clock::now();
  high_resolution_clock::time_point t2 = high_resolution_clock::now();
  double dif = duration_cast<nanoseconds>( t2 - t1 ).count();
  printf ("Elasped time is %lf nanoseconds.\n", dif );
}

void f2()
{
  timespec ts1,ts2;
  clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &ts1);
  clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &ts2);
  double dif = double( ts2.tv_nsec - ts1.tv_nsec );
  printf ("Elasped time is %lf nanoseconds.\n", dif );
}

void f3()
{
  struct timeval t1,t0;
  gettimeofday(&t0, 0);
  gettimeofday(&t1, 0);
  double dif = double( (t1.tv_usec-t0.tv_usec)*1000);
  printf ("Elasped time is %lf nanoseconds.\n", dif );
}
void f4()
{
  high_resolution_clock::time_point t1 , t2;
  double diff = 0;
  t1 = high_resolution_clock::now() ;
  for(int i = 1; i <= 10 ; i++)
  {
    t2 = high_resolution_clock::now() ;
    diff+= duration_cast<nanoseconds>( t2 - t1 ).count();
    t1 = t2;
  }
  printf ("high_resolution_clock:: Elasped time is %lf nanoseconds.\n", diff/10 );
}

void f5()
{
  timespec ts1,ts2;
  double diff = 0;
  clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &ts1);
  for(int i = 1; i <= 10 ; i++)
  {
    clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &ts2);
    diff+= double( ts2.tv_nsec - ts1.tv_nsec );
    ts1 = ts2;
  }
  printf ("clock_gettime:: Elasped time is %lf nanoseconds.\n", diff/10 );
}

void f6()
{
  struct timeval t1,t2;
  double diff = 0;
  gettimeofday(&t1, 0);
  for(int i = 1; i <= 10 ; i++)
  {
    gettimeofday(&t2, 0);
    diff+= double( (t2.tv_usec-t1.tv_usec)*1000);
    t1 = t2;
  }
  printf ("gettimeofday:: Elasped time is %lf nanoseconds.\n", diff/10 );
}

int main()
{
  //  f1();
  //  f2();
  //  f3();
  f6();
  f4();
  f5();
  return 0;
}

正如其他人已经注意到的，C标准库中的time()函数的分辨率不超过1秒。唯一可以提供更好分辨率的完全可移植的C函数似乎是clock()，但它测量的是处理器时间而不是wallclock时间。如果一个人满足于将自己局限于POSIX平台(例如Linux)，那么clock_gettime()函数是一个很好的选择。

从c++ 11开始，就有了更好的计时工具，以一种可以在不同编译器和操作系统间移植的形式提供了更好的分辨率。类似地，boost::datetime库提供了良好的高分辨率计时类，这些类应该是高度可移植的。

One challenge in using any of these facilities is the time-delay introduced by querying the system clock. From experimenting with clock_gettime(), boost::datetime and std::chrono, this delay can easily be a matter of microseconds. So, when measuring the duration of any part of your code, you need to allow for there being a measurement error of around this size, or try to correct for that zero-error in some way. Ideally, you may well want to gather multiple measurements of the time taken by your function, and compute the average, or maximum/minimum time taken across many runs.

为了帮助解决所有这些可移植性和统计数据收集问题，我一直在Github上开发cxx-rtimers库，它试图为c++代码的计时块提供一个简单的API，计算零错误，并从代码中嵌入的多个计时器报告统计数据。如果你有一个c++ 11编译器，你只需简单地#include <rtimers/cxx11.hpp>，并使用如下代码:

void expensiveFunction() {
    static rtimers::cxx11::DefaultTimer timer("expensiveFunc");
    auto scopedStartStop = timer.scopedStart();
    // Do something costly...
}

在程序退出时，你会得到一个写入std::cerr的时间统计摘要，例如:

Timer(expensiveFunc): <t> = 6.65289us, std = 3.91685us, 3.842us <= t <= 63.257us (n=731)

它显示了平均时间，它的标准偏差，上限和下限，以及这个函数被调用的次数。

如果你想使用特定于linux的计时函数，你可以#include <rtimers/posix.hpp>，或者如果你有Boost库但是一个旧的c++编译器，你可以#include <rtimers/ Boost .hpp>。这些计时器类也有不同版本，可以跨多个线程收集统计计时信息。还有一些方法允许您估计与两个立即连续的系统时钟查询相关的零错误。