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Re: Improving setitimer resolution
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 12:30:26AM -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> >B.t.w., I can produce cases where gettimeofday() diverges from time(),
> >which is based on system time, because the system time is a software
> >clock subject to manual (user) and automatic (network time)
> >adjustments, while multimedia time is hardware based.
>
> Btw, I don't have the strength to go through the discussion of the pros
> and cons of the gettimeofday implementation again. You can review it in
> the cygwin mailing list if you want.
Yes, I have done that already. I saw mention of the suspend/resume problem
with the high perf counter, but not what I write above about the current
implementation. That's another story anyway.
I would really appreciate it if you could find the time to look at the
trace I sent. There are only a few critical lines where strange things
start happening, I am sure you can make sense of what's there.
Pierre