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Thanks for your suggestions!

I have implemented a Timer class that uses an high resolution timer. In Pentium processor, it reads the current time-stamp counter variable with a specific instruction. It is based on Kazutomo's code http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~kazutomo/rdtsc.html .

As suggested by Abe, I also did a "scaling" of the given values.
Booth snapshots and code are enclosed. Maybe they can be useful to other people.

Thanks, Biagio

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Biagio Cosenza
ISISLab, Dip. di Informatica ed Applicazioni "Renato M. Capocelli"
Universita' degli Studi di Salerno
http://www.dia.unisa.it/~cosenza