getUTCtime() increases irregularly

Sean Kelly sean at f4.ca
Wed Apr 4 16:56:00 PDT 2007


Frits van Bommel wrote:
> 
> Yeah, it's probably just because your Windows version didn't set 
> whatever timer source it uses to >= 1000 ticks/second. Understandable, 
> since short timer ticks probably have a negative effect on performance.

Right.  I think the Windows system clock has a resolution of around 
10ms.  However, I believe there are ways to obtain higher-resolution 
timing information, either using realtime features, the multimedia API, 
or by some other means.  I couldn't name actual API calls offhand though.



Sean


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