Timer resolution in windows XP

Many articles said that the resolution of GetTickCount() is 55ms. It is obsolete for windows XP. We should use GetSystemTimeAdjustment() to retrieve the resolution. For Windows XP on a P4 computer, it is 15.6250 ms.

For high-resolution timer, we could use QueryPerformanceFrequency and QueryPerformanceCounter. The sample code is similar to the following:

LARGE_INTEGER Frequency;
QueryPerformanceFrequency(&Frequency);

LARGE_INTEGER beginPerformanceCount, endPerformanceCount;   // counter value

QueryPerformanceCounter(&beginPerformanceCount);

// Do something

QueryPerformanceCounter(&endPerformanceCount);

double valinSec = (double)(endPerformanceCount.QuadPart -  beginPerformanceCount.QuadPart)  /  (double)Frequency.QuadPart;

Its solution could be less than 1 nanosecond.