Higher-resolution time for win32
Marc Lehmann
schmorp at schmorp.de
Thu Jul 2 11:28:36 CEST 2009
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:39:19PM -0400, Andy Grundman <andy at hybridized.org> wrote:
> I noticed the libev time resolution on Win32 was only 1ms. Microsoft is
> of course too horrible to fix this properly, so nasty hacks have been
> developed. I ported the one used by Time::HiRes and it appears to work
> fine. I don't expect this patch is good enough, but want to at least
> start some discussion on the topic.
The CVS versioon already contains a higher resolution clock, and it
doesn't suffer from the problems you mention - it could use some testing
before release, however.
> The fact that time can move backwards is a bit worrying. Although
> Time::HiRes gets away with it!
All non-monotonic clocks can move backwards - is this backwards movement
jitter or just "the clock could change"? libev will automatically ajust if
that happens.
(there might be a mononotnic clock source available on windows, too, but I
lakc the tuits at the moment to look for one)
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