From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a447112bc8b81379 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!216.196.98.144!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.megapath.net!news.megapath.net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:21:32 -0600 From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: Ada, games and frame rate calculation Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 17:23:19 -0600 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.32.209.38 X-Trace: sv3-DX3FVeu1FLvBDbLI/gP2q8ELrCCjdV3Jf7isULT4jPmuzUYRCz93jgJ1jV7Kn3BbHmjvW/KWRtijVF1!MfnhofKmT4uyxzcVR10vlSqQIJA4Pab+5a+rwuakA3R5L0oG1G7PlDBhEmV4n/PmqMBI5Mzy++FR X-Complaints-To: abuse@megapath.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@megapath.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.31 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8399 Date: 2005-02-17T17:23:19-06:00 List-Id: "Luke A. Guest" wrote in message news:pan.2005.02.16.23.03.19.256588@n_o_p_o_r_k_a_n_d_h_a_m.abyss2.demon.co. uk... ... > Although, I would've thought they'd have used the > performance counters for the Ada.Real_Time package! Both GNAT and Janus/Ada use the performance counters for Calendar; thus there is no need for Real_Time to be different. (I don't know about other Ada compilers for sure.) Without using the performance counters, Calendar is too coarse to be usable for delays on Windows. Randy Brukardt.