Author: Alessandro Scotti
Date: 15:55:43 11/08/04
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On November 08, 2004 at 14:36:54, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >Yes. There seems to be no cure, and for a program, that shall run on any (modern >Windows) computer, this API seems useless. Hey don't tell me... I've spent days trying to make ReadFile() work with multithreading! :-) >I am astonished, that there is no reliable sub milli second resolution API >function. I remember well the days, where I fought with the PIT. There one >really had reliable micro second resolution under DOS (with quite considerable >programming effort). Under Windows it got very tricky, however. I think that's now the realm of real-time OS'es, the Windows NT kernel was designed for a different goal. BTW I've also looked up the multimedia functions timeGetTime() and timeGetSystemTime() and at a first glance they don't seem to help also...
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