Progress Display Remaining Time

[daviddoria@…]

It would be nice if the progress bar could calculate the estimated time remaining. There would have to be some kind of assumption about the uniformity of the remaining computations, but often I have a simple loop for(i = 0; i < 1e6; i++)

where I am doing the same thing in each iteration, so if I am 50% complete after 10 minutes, I expect to be done in about another 10 minutes.

Of course this is not the case with all loops, but if the thing being timed is known not to exhibit that behavior, then this shouldn't be used.

[Steven Watanabe]

What progress bar are you referring to?

[David Doria <daviddoria@…>]

This one:

boost::progress_display show_progress(NumIters); for(unsigned int i = 0; i < NumIters; i++) { Do something ++show_progress; }

~Dave