Dear sirs and madams and... Other things on internet forums,

I am attempting to write a program, and I was wondering how to get the time difference between point a and point b.  For example


long a, b;
int thingy;
this()
{
  a = 0; // Or whatever function should be used to set an initial value
  b = 0; // Same as a
  thingy = 0;
}
void run()
{
  // Do intensive calculations...
  b = System.currentTimeMillis(); // Only ever done this in Java :P
  thingy++;
  if((b-a) >= 500)
  {
    b = a;
    // Do something with thingy...
  }
}

Any idea how this might work with actual code instead of fake code?

On Sunday, 6 April 2014 at 02:12:41 UTC, MrOverkill wrote:
> Dear sirs and madams and... Other things on internet forums,
>
> I am attempting to write a program, and I was wondering how to get the time difference between point a and point b.

You should look into:
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_datetime.html#.Clock
and
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_datetime.html#.StopWatch
I'd likely use a StopWatch.

Also, you should use D.learn for questions like this.

On Sunday, 6 April 2014 at 02:31:29 UTC, safety0ff wrote:
> On Sunday, 6 April 2014 at 02:12:41 UTC, MrOverkill wrote:
>> Dear sirs and madams and... Other things on internet forums,
>>
>> I am attempting to write a program, and I was wondering how to get the time difference between point a and point b.
>
> You should look into:
> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_datetime.html#.Clock
> and
> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_datetime.html#.StopWatch
> I'd likely use a StopWatch.
>
> Also, you should use D.learn for questions like this.

Thank you very much, good (sir/madam/other)