David, David Woolley wrote: > Martin Burnicki wrote: > >> >> This is not quite correct. Even older versions of the NTP port for >> Windows have tried to interpolate the timer ticks using the performance >> counter. >> > I *was* aware of that, but that doesn't change the fact that ordinary > applications only see the time updating on a tick; only ntpd benefits > from the interpolation. On modern Unices, all applications get high > resolution clock readings. > > Also, I believe that the zero point of the interpolation is rather > sensitive to scheduling delays on loaded systems.
I fully agree to all of the above. I just wanted to point out this has nothing to do with the multimedia timer stuff which caused a different problem under Windows. Martin -- Martin Burnicki Meinberg Funkuhren Bad Pyrmont Germany _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
