On Apr 26 20:00, Christian Franke wrote:
> System calls and resolutions of C++11 clocks:
>
> Mingw-w64 MSVC16 Cygwin
> system_clock::now() 1 2 2
> steady_clock::now() 1 3 3
> high_resolution_clock::now() 1 3 3
>
> where
> 1: GetSystemTimeAsFileTime: >15ms to 1ms (unpredictable)
> 2: GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime: <1us
> 3: QueryPerformanceCounter: <500ns
Not quite. Newer Windows versions support better alternatives compared
to QueryPerformanceCounter. Thus on newer systems Cygwin uses
QueryUnbiasedInterruptTimePrecise for CLOCK_MONOTONIC{_RAW}
QueryUnbiasedInterruptTime for CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE
QueryInterruptTimePrecise for CLOCK_BOOTTIME{_ALARM}
and, of course
GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime for CLOCK_REALTIME
GetSystemTimeAsFileTime for CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE
Apart from style issues, I vote for using GetSystemTimePreciseAsFileTime
for CLOCK_REALTIME and only fall back to GetSystemTimeAsFileTime for
CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE or if the OS doesn't support the precise call.
Please do keep in mind that there are assumptions of a minimum
precision of gettimeofday in the wild, which are not really in our
hands. If we can avoid upstream code to #ifdef time computations
for Mingw separately, rather than just using gettimeofday on all
supported platforms, it's certainly a win-win, isn't it?
Corinna
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