From: XXguille AT XXiies DOT XXes (Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia)
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Subject: Re: high resolution timer
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:48:20 GMT
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El día Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:11:45 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> escribió:

>> Can anyone tell me how accurate is gettimeofday()?
>
>55ms, of course: it gets the time from the DOS function 2Ch (as is
>clear from looking at the sources ;-).

Ops. Sorry..   m-)

>To solve your problem, either reprogram timer 2 (instead of the system
>timer 0, like `uclock' does) and use it in the same way as `uclock';
>or program the CMOS clock to generate interrupt 70h every 976.6
>microseconds and install a handler that counts these interrupts.

976 microseconds is not enough, so I guess I will go for timer 2.
Thanks!

Regards,
GUILLE

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Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia
XXguille AT XXiies DOT XXes (ya sabes :-)