> Sent: Thu 9/16/2004 4:04 PM
 > To: Peters, Tom
 > Subject: cse275 hw2
 >
 > Dr. Peters,
 > I have a couple questions regarding assignment 2.  I'm not exactly sure 
how to find the performance time of the programs.  I have been using a stop 
watch, but i dont think that is the most efficient way of doing it.  
 >

 If you're using Unix or a Unix-like (e.g., Linux, Mac OSX) operating
 system, you can use the 'time' command.

 prompt$ time ./program

 will output some information about runtime.

 If you're using Windows, see the following code snippets.

 http://www.decompile.com/html/time_function.html (applies to Unix as
 well, but is only accurate to within one second)
 http://www.decompile.com/html/windows_timer_api.html