Message-Id: <01BE0E18.C651B4C0.ddomingu@mlg.cit.alcatel.es>
From: Diego Dominguez Cazorla <ddomingu AT mlg DOT cit DOT alcatel DOT es>
To: "'djgpp'" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: allegro and pctimer?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 08:45:16 +0100
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

	Hello!!!

	I have a program that does some processing stuff and another that acts as 
a front-end. The front-end uses allegro (and bgui ;) and calls (with 
system(..) ) the processing one.

	Inside the processing program I use only allegro's timer again to measure 
time used by each processing algorithm and write it down to a text file to 
allow the front end to show them. (Of course I disable timer in the 
front-end before calling it, and enable it afterwards).

	The problem is that it seems to me that allegro's timer is not enough 
precise (number shown change a bit each execution, even after several times 
to have cache stabilized). I tried with pctimer and things seemed to be 
better, but it WOULD hang up the system if called from the front-end.

	Do you know if it is possible to have alllegro, and (with allegro's timer 
disabled) have a another timer to do the measuring? Do you know how exact 
is allegro's timer?

	Thanx in advance,
ddomingu AT cit DOT alcatel DOT es			Diego Dominguez Cazorla