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Re: profile_time in win32 euphoria

• Posted by Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Oct 21, 2004
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Robert Craig wrote:
> 
> Elliott S. de Andrade wrote:
> >   Obviously, not a lot of searching.... I found it in a couple minutes 
> > (though I /did/ know what to look for already.) Your best bet would be the 
> > SetTimer function ( 
> > <a
> > href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/windowing/timers/timerreference/timerfunctions/settimer.asp">http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/windowing/timers/timerreference/timerfunctions/settimer.asp</a>
> 
> Thanks.
> I'm not sure SetTimer will do what I want, but I'll look into it.
> I get the impression it's more of an application-level timer.
> In DOS, I have a precise machine-level interrupt that I handle
> at a low level, even to the point of looking at CPU registers.
> SetTimer seems to just place a stream of messages into a queue,
> and I'm not sure if it even does that preemptively or not.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/winui/winui/windowsuserinterface/windowing/timers/abouttimers.asp

Especially the secion on high resolution timers.

-- 
Derek Parnell
Melbourne, Australia