I've got a much better timer with uniform behavior across Windows and
POSIX.
Just FYI, I started a new & improved boost::timer interface a long time ago but had a crazy rush of work which made me put it on the side for a while. I should eventually find some time to finish it but I have no clue when this will happen. I'm not even sure it still works with the current version of boost. Here is my work: http://www.unitedsoft.ch/boost/ As you see, the main idea was to have a templated timer class that accepts a device class, which could use various apis for the timeing. Problems still to solve was thread safety, speed steping and how to hierachize them (should we provide compile-time selection as well?) in order to provide portable behavior. Hope it helps, Philippe