[fpc-pascal] timing again

[spir ☣]

Hello,

I posted a question about timing some time a go and got an answer; but let down for a while because other problems required my attention. So, I need a simple func to get the current time; mainly to benchmark various implementation choices, possibly for other needs.

The timer module brings the opposite feature, namely it triggers an event after a given elapsed time, while my need is the get the time when a given event occurs...

Using a system command (time on unix) is not possible in the general case, because it can only globally measure the running time of the app, while
(1) I have no a priori idea of the relative cost of init tasks such as feeding test data structures,
(2) there are numerous test funcs to run (at least 45 in this case) in a row, every running time beeing collected, then post-processed.

So, what I need and hope exists is the simplest possible func returning the current time as a real value (at best with unit=second). I guess this must be obtained from the system (but not the time command), possibly from a C routine. Pointers welcome :-)


Denis
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