David J Taylor wrote: > David Woolley wrote: > [] >> You won't get millisecond accuracy on Windows. Although the software >> clock can be disciplined to better than a millisecond, applications >> can only read to one tick, which is 10ms by default and 1ms with the >> fastest multi-media timers (which risks lost ticks). > > David, do you have a reference for your "risks lost ticks" statement as > applied to Windows? > > Thanks, > David
ISTR that there have been previous references in this newsgroup. Specifically, EIDE disk drivers can mask or disable interrupts for a period long enough to cause a "lost tick". I believe the group is archived somewhere. . . . _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
