Re: Ada, games and frame rate calculation

["Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>]

On 16 Feb 2005 19:55:02 -0500, Stephen Leake wrote:

> "Luke A. Guest" <laguest@n_o_p_o_r_k_a_n_d_h_a_m.abyss2.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> It's portable, so yeah there will be a windaz build. My main development
>> platform is Linux. I'm surprised that the win32 is identical to Calendar,
>> well not that surprised ;-) just as long as I can get milliseconds from it
>> then that'll be fine. 
> 
> You can read the clock with microsecond precision (on Windows and some
> other platforms); you can only delay with an accuracy of about 10
> milliseconds (again on Windows).

This is a tunable parameter which default setting depends on the windows
version. It is 10ms under NT. I am not sure about XP, but it seems to be
about 1ms there.

Anyway, an application can screw it up to 1ms. The corresponding Win32 API
is timeBegPeriod. (It is a system-wide setting, BTW! (:-))

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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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