get real time counter value in microseconds More...

Detailed Description

This function returns the total real time passed since some arbitrary starting point. The time is returned in microseconds. This call is equivalent to wall clock time.

Examples:

        s = PAPI_get_real_cyc();
        your_slow_code();
        e = PAPI_get_real_cyc();
        printf("Wallclock cycles: %lld\en",e-s);

See also:: PAPI Fortran API; PAPI; PAPI_get_virt_usec; PAPI_get_virt_cyc; PAPI_library_init

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

papi.c