Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 20:10:31 12/13/99
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On December 13, 1999 at 18:39:25, Dann Corbit wrote: >If you are running other threads of execution on your system, it won't be very >accurate, since clock() returns time slices given to the process only, not wall >time. However, if you start the process in high priority, it will be pretty >close. Unfortunately, high resolution timers are not very portable, and you >usually end up writing them one by one for each new system. If we were talking about UNIX, I would agree with you. But instead we're talking about the Mac OS, which is so bloody retarded that I would be surprised if it could tell how much time a "process" got. It doesn't even have preemptive multitasking, and it most certainly can't assign priorities to processes. (Of course, I'm talking about OS9 and not OSX. OSX rocks.) -Tom
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