in reply to Re^2: negative elapsed time?
in thread negative elapsed time?

So, is there way where i could program the code to run on only a single core?

Yes. See the /AFFINITY switch to the windows start command:

  AFFINITY    The new application will have the specified processor
              affinity mask, expressed as a hexadecimal number.

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But I do not think that is the problem here. (As might be evidenced by your lack of response to Re^5: negative elapsed time? (versions?)?)

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