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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada, games and frame rate calculation
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"Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com> writes:

> 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.

Only true if the external time can never change; if it can, then
D.8(32) isn't met.

  A clock jump is the difference between two successive distinct
  values of the clock (as observed by calling the Clock
  function). There shall be no backward clock jumps.

-- 
Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.