Re: Repeated timeouts period

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Le primidi 21 vendémiaire, an CCXIV, Paul Davis a écrit :
> in this example, the problem is really related to rounding.
> g_timer_elapsed() will return the correct value, but you round it (in an
> unpredictable way from a portability perspective by casting to int) to
> some integer number of seconds. if you always rounded to the nearest
> integer, you would not see the irregularities you describe; rather the
> clock's imprecision would be limited to 0.5 seconds, which is the
> smallest it can be possibly be.
> 
> the clock does not get progressively less accurate over time. its
> accuracy is always the same: +/- 0.5 seconds, and that is not because of
> the way the timeout is called, but because you wanted a second-
> resolution clock.

You get me wrong here. What I want is not a clock that at all time displays
precisely the current internal time; of course, with 1 second precision
display, there is up to 1/2 second différence.

What I want is a displayed clock that *changes* precisely at the time the
internal clock value changes. With careful programming, I can get that with
"precisely" = the intrinsic system latency, which is pretty good (less than
a CRT screen refresh, on idle modern systems).

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