Also, is the function "TimGetTicks()" an effective way to measure performance of a single or small number of operations, or is this an imprecise measurement?
TimGetTicks is really only appropriate for operations that take several seconds or more to run. Since it only gives 100th of a second on Palm OS 5 and earlier, you can't really get accurate timing for short tasks. One common technique used to measure short tasks is to do them in a loop until the total time spent is significant, then divide that time by the number of iterations.
-- Ben Combee, senior DTS engineer, PalmSource, Inc.
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