Supporting High-Resolution Timers
The high-resolution timer functions QueryPerformanceCounter and QueryPerformanceFrequency allow independent software vendors (ISVs) to use the high-resolution timers available on your target device. These high-resolution timers enable more accurate timings than the one-millisecond granularity available through the GetTickCount function. For more information, see High-Performance Counter Support.
The OAL sample code provides default implementations of the performance querying functions. If you do not provide high-resolution timers on your platform, the default capabilities of the performance querying functions are implemented using GetTickCount. In the default code, a call to QueryPerformanceCounter returns the value represented by GetTickCount, while QueryPerformanceFrequency returns 1000.
To support high-resolution timers
- Provide your own implementations of the OEMQueryPerformanceCounter and OEMQueryPerformanceFrequency functions.
- Add code to OEMInit to set the variables pQueryPerformanceCounter and pQueryPerformanceFrequency to point to your implementations of the OEMQueryPerformanceCounter and OEMQueryPerformanceFrequency functions.
- Make any further calls to the QueryPerformance functions through their respective pointers.
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Last updated on Wednesday, April 13, 2005
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