I believe the value is hardcoded in the ROM (or was at one point). If
you're worried about it taking up CPU cycles, run your app through the
profiler and see how much time it takes.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bradly J. Barton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Palm Developer Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2001 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: SysTicksPerSecond ()
> > I know that currently SysTicksPerSecond () == 60 on POSE and 100
> otherwise.
> > My question is, if there are any plans to have any Palms where it is NOT
> 100.
> > Any predictions? Thanks. Paul N.
>
> I think the more important question is how CPU intensive is
> SysTicksPerSecond? In other words, is it something that is calculated
every
> time or is it something that is looked up in the hardware? If I expect to
> have to use this value a lot, should I check it once at the beginning of
my
> application and store the value or can I just call it every time I need
it.
> (Obviously the prior is safer, but if it is already stored somewhere else,
> that's wasted memory..)
>
>
>
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