#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

time(NULL)函数将返回从1970年1月1日00:00开始经过的秒数。因为这个函数在程序中不同的时间被调用，所以它总是不同的 c++中的时间

#include <ctime>
#include <functional>

using namespace std;

void f() {
  clock_t begin = clock();

  // ...code to measure time...

  clock_t end = clock();

  function<double(double, double)> convtime = [](clock_t begin, clock_t end)
  {
     return double(end - begin) / CLOCKS_PER_SEC;
  };

  printf("Elapsed time: %.2g sec\n", convtime(begin, end));

}

类似的例子，一个可用在这里，只有额外的转换功能+打印出来。

在内部，该函数将访问系统的时钟，这就是为什么每次调用它时它都会返回不同的值。一般来说，使用非函数式语言，函数中可能有许多副作用和隐藏状态，仅通过查看函数名和参数是看不到的。

time(NULL)返回从1970年01月01日00:00 (Epoch)开始经过的秒数。所以这两个值之间的差就是处理所花费的秒数。

int t0 = time(NULL);
doSomthing();
doSomthingLong();
int t1 = time(NULL);

printf ("time = %d secs\n", t1 - t0);

使用getttimeofday()可以得到更好的结果，它返回以秒为单位的当前时间，就像time()一样，也以微秒为单位。