I am interested to hear any test reports for jQuery applications that are using AJAX, any animation for PCs that might have altered the system timer resolution.
I posted an entry at my blog with discussing this, with a C/C++ utility you can use to test to see how your applications behave in normal sleep mode vs "fast Sleep" mode. http://santronics.blogspot.com/ Here is the fastsleep.cpp comments: // Utility to toggle the PC with Windows OS multi-media // resolution that speeds up the Sleep() quantum. // // All PC has a quantum of 10-15ms regardless of the // sleep value. Assuming the PC is 15ms, if you use // Sleep(1), the time slice is 15ms. Sleep(18) is 30ms, // and so on. // // This utility allows you to toggle the resolution // to 1 ms. The actual delay is shown by this utility. // // Why? // // This can change the behavior of your applications // which depends on timers, like many of the Web 2.0 // Javascript applications. In Windows, the multi media // function timeBeginPeriod() changes the resolution // for the entire system. So if some other application // is running with timeBeginPeriod(1) enabled, this // will have a drastic effect on your Web 2.0 application. // It may behave better, it may behave unexpectedly worst. // It might explain someone reported to you, "hey this // is not running right." But others don't see this, // and you can't repeat it, so you just blew the report // away. This utility can be use to design your // application properly under all conditions. -- HLS
