One Day Beta for Microsecond Performance Timer Plugin

[Dar Scott]

I have a performance timer plugin for Windows and OS X that probably  
works on other platforms.  I plan to make this available for FREE for  
all versions before 1.0.  Actually, I think this will be always free,  
but I thought I'd put in that caveat just in case.  (The same  
functions might show up in advanced clock libraries.)

If anybody is willing to check this out and provide scathing  
comments, I'd really appreciate it.

I have checked this out on my XP desktop and G4 OS X.

So I need lots of comments, especially from those on notebooks, on  
computers with exotic PCI, and on other exotic environments.

My plan is to send betas today by email and then put this on my  
website Sunday night.

Essentially this adds commands to start and stop a stopwatch and a  
function to get the time difference in seconds.  Resolution is  
typically better than a microsecond, but OS activities can make these  
vary much more at times.

If you see a resolution of only 1 ms or 10 ms, let me know!

This also is a test of embedded externals and my new "darz" name  
prefix.  Is "embedded external" an oxymoron?

If you test this today and make comments, you will have a great voice  
in how the first release works.  And you can help me out as I learn  
how to create a product family.

So send me an email, if you'd like to play with this.  The plugin is  
currently about 44KB, but might shrink in a week or two.  I'll send a  
demo stack, too.

FREE!

Dar Scott
Dar Scott Consulting
   and
Dar's Lab