Timing Namespace Reference
Detailed Description
The Nebula3 Timing Subsystem
The Nebula3 Timing subsystem offers classes and servies for measuring elapsed time, and working with the calendar time (days, weeks, month, years).Timing Subsystem Basics
- Timing::Time represents a double-precision floating point number and contains a time value in seconds.
- Timing::Tick represent an integer number contains a time value in milli-seconds (1/1000sec).
- To convert between the 2 data types, use the global Timing::TicksToSeconds() and Timing::SecondsToTicks() functions.
- To let a thread sleep for a specific amount of time, use the Timing::Sleep() method.
- Use Timing::Sleep(0.0) to give up the current thread time slice.
- Use the Timing::Timer class for measuring elapsed time. Timing::Timer is also "fast enough" to be used as a profiler around a block of code.
- Use the Timing::CalendarTime class if you need to query the current wall-clock time and date.
- The Timing::CalendarTime class also offers method to convert between calendar time and IO::FileTime.
Data Structures | |
| class | CalendarTime |
| class | Timer |
Typedefs | |
| typedef double | Time |
| the time datatype | |
| typedef int | Tick |
| the tick datatype (one tick == 1 millisecond) | |
Functions | |
| Time | TicksToSeconds (Tick ticks) |
| Tick | SecondsToTicks (Time t) |
| void | Sleep (Time t) |
Function Documentation
| Time Timing::TicksToSeconds | ( | Tick | ticks | ) | [inline] |
Convert ticks to seconds.
| Tick Timing::SecondsToTicks | ( | Time | t | ) | [inline] |
Convert seconds to ticks
| void Timing::Sleep | ( | Time | t | ) | [inline] |
Put current thread to sleep for specified amount of seconds.