Timing program execution

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I have a project written in C and I would like to know if there is a simple way to profile its execution time and memory usage under Windows.

Thanks in advance.

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 02 '10 at 09:00

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You can launch process monitor, run your program, and then go back to procmon and use Tools/Process Activity Summary to have an overview of the time and memory used by your program.

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 24 '10 at 20:14

Timing information is easy enough: create a .bat file invoking the program, output the current system time before the program starts and after it ends...something like this in pseudocode:

print system time
execute program
print system time

As for memory consumption, I would say it's a bit more involved, although definitely doable. You might try something along these lines...

Timing program execution

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