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From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
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Subject: Re: how to analyze clock drift
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 03:51:47 +0100
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tmoran@acm.org writes:

> To quote Richard Hamming "The purpose of computing
> is insight, not numbers". What is it that you want
> to know here? How do you hope to make use of what
> you learn?

It is a Master project in CS.

My teacher said those C++ timers aren't rock-solid.

Can I use them anyway? I asked.

Yes, but output the tick times, and analyze just how
"not rock-solid" they are, he said. (Pseudo quotes.)

That's what I'm trying to do.

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