2008/2/28 Robert F. Scheer <rfscheer at speakeasy.net>:
> I compared with Jon Hylands and discovered a big difference between my
>  Ubuntu and his Windows results.
>
>  Time millisecondsToRun: [10 timesRepeat: [(Delay forMilliseconds: 1000)
>  wait]] 10015
>
>  Time millisecondsToRun: [100 timesRepeat: [(Delay forMilliseconds: 100)
>  wait]]  10015
>
>  Time millisecondsToRun: [1000 timesRepeat: [(Delay forMilliseconds: 10)
>  wait]]  13405
>
>  Time millisecondsToRun: [10000 timesRepeat: [(Delay forMilliseconds: 1)
>  wait]]  45728
>
>  He did the third test and got something like 10250 instead of my 13405.
>
>  Is this behavior well-known and understood or is there something wrong
>  with my install?
>
>  Thanks for any help.  It's a big problem for my robot (and therefore me)
>  at the moment.
>

With low numbers (like 1 ms) there is a big deviation in accuracy.
Also, keep in mind that different OSes having different minimal
measurable clock step.


>  - Robert
>
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>



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Best regards,
Igor Stasenko AKA sig.