[comp.sys.sgi] Making time measurements

kprasad@caip.rutgers.edu (K. Venkatesh Prasad) (06/28/90)

Dear sgi-netters,

I am a newuser on the SGI machines and work on a 4D/50GT SGI machine.
Would someone have any pointers to making accurate (millisecond) time
measurements on the machine. What I need is the following.

0. I animate a figure or several different figures in time-sequence.
1. I need to have an observer "press" a mouse key to record 
   observation instances ... the time intervals could be as short as a
few milliseconds.

Is there a way to do this on the SGI machine??

Many thanks in advance,

Regards

Prasad
-- 
K. Venkatesh Prasad
Machine Vision Group

bennett@sgi.com (Jim Bennett) (06/28/90)

kprasad@caip.rutgers.edu (K. Venkatesh Prasad) writes:

> I am a newuser on the SGI machines and work on a 4D/50GT SGI machine.
> Would someone have any pointers to making accurate (millisecond) time
> measurements on the machine. What I need is the following.

Check out the GETITIMER(2) man page.

Jim Bennett			(bennett@esd.sgi.com)