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std::chrono cheat sheet for the every-day programmer

Chrono cheat sheet

For the every-day programmer who needs to get shit done instead of fighting type errors.

If your application deals with times in any meaningful way, you should probably want to actually store time_points and durations and what-not; chrono has a pretty rich vocabulary for talking about time-related concepts using the type system. However, sometimes you just need to do something simple, like timing how long something takes, which is where chrono becomes overly complex, hence this cheat sheet.

All examples will assume #include <chrono>.

I just want to time something, then print the result