gettimeofday() does not returns usec resolution

[Lapo Luchini]

> > would give 3-4 microsecond precision on "deltas" but an initial uncertainty of
>              ^^^^^
> > the usual 15 milliseconds or so.
> >
> This is a output of the mentioned profiler. It say about a minimal time of about 1-2 us. May the difference be
> caused by the cygwin.dll overhead ? (We're using the native functions, not gettimeofday()).
>
> [1828] EmptyTest   count:    100  time: (min)          1 [us] (max)          2 [us] (sum)        169 [us]

On my machine it's actually 1.74us, but I made the test on some machines and the result varies from 1.05 to 5.9us
(excluding a single machine for which it takes 11.45us).
That using my own profiles that uses the "adapted gettimeofday(), so it has a ilttle bit more of overhead to
divide it in the secs and usecs fileds.

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