lis_wtime(3f)

💖 lis_wtime(3f) — bestie edition 💖

okay so you're deep in the Lis Library Functions manual, and this little cutie is called lis_wtime. she does ONE job and she does it flawlessly, no cap. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

lis_wtime — measure the elapsed time ⏱️💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

subroutine lis_wtime(LIS_INT* argc, char** argv[], LIS_INTEGER ierr);

like. that's the whole thing. she's serving minimalism. 👑

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Measure the elapsed time. 🕰️✨

that's it. that's the girl. no drama, no extra lore, just time being measured fr fr.

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🌈 INPUT 🌈

None 💀

literally nothing. she needs zero input. she's self-sufficient. main character energy only. 🫶

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⭐ OUTPUT ⭐

The elapsed time in seconds from the given point is returned as the double precision number 🔥

so you get your seconds back, in double precision, counting from whatever point you decided to start at. periodt. 💖

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🍓 NOTE 🍓

okay bestie listen up because this is the whole vibe check of the function 👇

To measure the processing time, call lis_wtime to get the starting time, call it again to get the ending time, and calculate the difference. 🧮✨

so like:

1. call lis_wtime — that's your starting time 🌱
2. do the thing you wanted to time 🏃♀️
3. call lis_wtime again — that's your ending time 🌅
4. subtract. boom. that's your processing time. 🎀

she doesn't do the subtraction for you, bestie. that part is on you. iykyk 💅

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💜 SEE ALSO 💜

• lis(3) — the whole Lis family, go say hi 👑
• http://www.ssisc.org/lis/ — the official site, iconic ✨

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okay that's the page!! 🥳 written up as a Man Page on 6 Sep 2012, from the lis_wtime(3f) era of the Lis Library Functions docs — ancient but still slaying. hope this helped bestie, go measure some time 🕰️💖✨🦋