Adding a high-resolution timer to platform win32.

src/platform-win32.cc

Index: src/platform-win32.cc
diff --git a/src/platform-win32.cc b/src/platform-win32.cc
index 49463be8e00fbf8ab022e71ba8af5fccaf0f2f09..de17db59b86f337a903f4316d5de74af8612ab52 100644
--- a/src/platform-win32.cc
+++ b/src/platform-win32.cc
@@ -591,9 +591,18 @@ double OS::TimeCurrentMillis() {
   return t.ToJSTime();
 }
 
-// Returns the tickcounter based on timeGetTime.
+
+static LARGE_INTEGER* frequency = NULL;

[caseq, 2012/08/27 09:09:58]

Does this have to be dynamically allocated?

+
+
+// Returns the tickcounter based on QueryPerformanceCounter or timeGetTime.
 int64_t OS::Ticks() {
-  return timeGetTime() * 1000;  // Convert to microseconds.
+  static LARGE_INTEGER tick;
+  if (frequency != NULL && QueryPerformanceCounter(&tick)) {
+    return static_cast<int64_t>(tick.QuadPart * 1000000.0 / frequency->QuadPart);
+  } else {

[caseq, 2012/08/27 09:09:58]

I'd drop the parenthesis and "else".

+    return timeGetTime() * 1000;  // Convert to microseconds.
+  }
 }
 
 
@@ -2087,12 +2096,20 @@ void OS::SetUp() {
   // call this setup code within the same millisecond.
   uint64_t seed = static_cast<uint64_t>(TimeCurrentMillis());
   srand(static_cast<unsigned int>(seed));
+  // Get the number of ticks per second that is used in OS::Ticks()
+  frequency = new LARGE_INTEGER();
+  if (!QueryPerformanceFrequency(frequency)) {
+    delete frequency;
+    frequency = NULL;
+  }
   limit_mutex = CreateMutex();
   SamplerThread::SetUp();
 }
 
 
 void OS::TearDown() {
+  delete frequency;
+  frequency = NULL;
   SamplerThread::TearDown();
   delete limit_mutex;
 }