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Get the current time as a double float in second units. Handy to compute processing time interval.
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GetTimeAsDouble.h
#include <sys/time.h>
// Return the current time as a double float in second units
double getTimeAsDouble()
{
struct timeval t;
::gettimeofday( &t, NULL );
return double(t.tv_sec) + double(t.tv_usec)/1000000.0;
}
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