edu.princeton.cs.algorithms

Class Stopwatch

java.lang.Object

edu.princeton.cs.algorithms.Stopwatch

public class Stopwatch
extends Object

The Stopwatch data type is for measuring the time that elapses between the start and end of a programming task (wall-clock time). See StopwatchCPU for a version that measures CPU time.

Author:

Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
Stopwatch() Initialize a stopwatch object.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
double	elapsedTime() Returns the elapsed time (in seconds) since this object was created.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Stopwatch

public Stopwatch()

Initialize a stopwatch object.

Method Detail

elapsedTime

public double elapsedTime()

Returns the elapsed time (in seconds) since this object was created.