ccflyer

Hey everyone,

I am looking for some kind of program that acts like a timer or a stopwatch and has accuracy to 1/10,000 of a second (Ex. 1.2987 sec). I have looked everywhere, but can't seem to find one.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Chris C.

DaWei

That kind of accuracy is problematic in the average desktop system with a multi-process executive. You could get into kernel mode and use an interrupt if you know how to not kill a system under those circumstances. Some timing functions advertise high precision, but precision and accuracy aren't the same thing, and the precision is ephemeral, anyway.

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ccflyer

I am a fairly unexperienced programmer, and really don't know about getting into "kernel mode", and not killing the system. - but thanks anyway.

-Chris

uman

heh

I learned what the difference between precision and accuracy is yesterday!

Just one step closer to knowing as much useless shit as DaWei :-P

(kidding, kidding, no offense DaWei)

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DaWei

Uman, you don't know how funny that really is. I have a running joke with my landlady that I will give her one useless piece of information each day. And I do.

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uman

That's easy.

One day, say, "did you know that I am not a Finn?"

Next day, "did you know that I am not Irish?"

etc.

or something similar

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DaWei

Well, my mom was Irish and my daddy is a Finn, but I get your drift. Actually, it runs more along the lines of telling her something like, "Two good gage blocks, when pressed together and rubbed against each other slightly, will adhere." Or that one of the guys in the Manhatten Project, responsible for determining what actually constituted a critical mass, died an ugly death due to severe radiation burns. I have the soul of a skald.

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Polyphemus_

You can try to develop a very simple OS yourself... just create a piece of assemble code which sets up your stack, create an interrupt for the PIT, use GRUB as bootloader and voila

ivan

Easy, Polyphemus, but don't you see that ccflyer is a newbie like many of us? And he said that he is an unexperienced programmer? No offense, but we are here to learn something...

DaWei

Well, the OP did say
That's been a month and a half, I suspect he found a way or decided it was a little complex for his level and did something else.

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