[ut2004] Maybe OT, what timer func does UT use?
Ryan C. Gordon
icculus at clutteredmind.org
Thu Apr 1 22:46:24 EST 2004
> I was more worried about precision. It seems 1 ms accuracy is all we
> get. There isn't any sort of reliable, cross-platform sub-millisecond
> timer?
gettimeofday() returns microsections (1/1000 millisecond)...if you need
more than that, you need a real-time OS.
rdtsc isn't reliable. Don't use it.
(QueryPerformanceCounter() on Windows is apparently just a wrapper over
rdtsc, but I can't speak with authority on this issue.)
--ryan.
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