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standard.C.time.difftime

Name Version Deprecated
difftime version 1.0 no

Prototype:
number difftime(number timer1, number timer0)

Parameters:
timer1      [in] Ending time
timer2      [in] Start time

Description:
difftime returns the elapsed time in seconds, from timer0 to timer1. The value returned is a double-precision, floating-point number.

Example: 
import standard.C.time



class Main {

     function Main() {

          var start=time();

          echo "Something to do ...\n";

          for (var i=0;i<20000000;i++) {

               // NOTHING

          }

          var end=time();

          echo "Elapsed : " + difftime(end,start) + " seconds";

     }

}

 



Results 

Something to do ...

Elapsed : 2 seconds

Returns:
the elapsed time in seconds, from timer0 to timer1.

Documented by Simona Gabriela Plesuvu, generation time: Thu Oct 15 20:02:03 2009 GMT(c)2009 RadGs Software