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STY: Change ITK_OVERRIDE for override in whole code (find Modules -type f -exec sed -i 's/ITK_OVERRIDE/override/g' {} +)

The itk::TimeProbe constructor ends up calling
itkResourceProbe::GetSystemInformation, which reads things like the
hostname, the number of CPUs and so on. On Linux it parses /proc/cpuinfo
for that information.

OTB doesn't really need all those fields for a simple timer that's only
used in a couple of places. This commit adds a replacement for that.

As for the benchmarks, 100 000 instantiations of itk::TimeProbe take
about 9.5 s on my computer. I suspect it's somewhat slower on a server
with more CPUs. So this doesn't bring a huge performance improvement,
but it might help in cases where a large number of high-resolution
images are being read. The time for the same number of otb::Stopwatch
instantiations is 4 ms.

The context for this change is a project where we process time series of
medium to high resolution images over large areas. The TimeProbe in
otbGDALImageIO was sometimes showing in the profiles.

A relevant discussion can be found at
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/otb-developers/IvsFzSgRojo/0sMeEIZgCQAJ .