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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 01:27:02PM -0800, Johan Hake wrote:
> On Wednesday November 10 2010 13:14:26 noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > revno: 5256
> > committer: Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>
> > branch nick: dolfin
> > timestamp: Wed 2010-11-10 22:11:59 +0100
> > message:
> >   Use boost::timer in place of std::clock. Simplifies implementation,
> >   but same (slow) speed as std::clock and equally bad precision.
> >   boost:timer most likely uses std::clock but at least the implementation
> >   is simplified.
>
> The boost::timer _is_ using std::clock and the implementation is more or less
> exactly the same as ours (where) :). I looked into this when I tried to fix
> the strange timer bug in PyDOLFIN.

Yes, but the implementation is "much" simpler using boost.

It's now been replaced by a system-specific call to getttimeofday
which has much better speed and accuracy.

--
Anders