// Purpose:  provide a stopwatch that can be started and stopped as
//    a process executes.
// Author:  Doug Moore.
// Date:    Feb. 17, 2000

#include<sys/times.h>

class stopWatch
{
 public:
    void set_start() {start=times(&starttest);}
    void set_stop()
    { end=times(&endtest);
      elapsed=(float)(endtest.tms_utime - starttest.tms_utime)/100;
    }
    int get_start() {return start;}
    int get_stop() {return end;} 
    float get_elapsed() {return elapsed;}

 private:
    clock_t start;
    clock_t  end;
    tms starttest;
    tms endtest;
    float elapsed;
};