>>>Or add QueryPerformace-Routines into the fray...
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>>Can you tell me more about it?
>
>High-Resolution Timer routines. Usually used in combination woth QueryPerformanceFrecency to arrive at comparable time slices. Depending on your needs you can use either QueryPerformanceCounter as a raw value or measure time in small slices, build an index together with a date() or datetime() and a flag for "rollover happened today"... look it up in WinAPI
One thing worth mentioning - I believe HPET was introduced (in Windows) with Vista, it's not available on XP/2003 or earlier:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Precision_Event_Timer
Regards. Al
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