Re: [PATCH] Win32 equivalent to GetTickCount systemcall (i386)

David Engraf
2005-12-06T12:26:55Z

> On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 12:23 +0100, David Engraf wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 11:36 +0100, David Engraf wrote:
> [.../9
> > > 3) wouldn't it be better to expose a wallclock time thing which
> > > has a constant unit of time between all kernels?
> >
> > What is it?
> >
> >
> > > (and.. wait.. isn't that called gettimeofday() )
> > Not really gettimeofday is based on the date and time, but what if the
> user
> > changes the date, the counter would also change.
>
> man 2 times
> And use the returned value.
>
> Bernd
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times has only 10ms resolution, we need at least 1ms.

David

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