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- From: hoehle@zeus.gmd.de (Joerg Hoehle)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: GetSysTime() accuracy
- Date: 18 Apr 1996 18:19:04 GMT
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- Osma Ahvenlampi (oahvenla@hyppynaru.cs.hut.fi) wrote:
- : However, when I tried a loop that called GetSysTime() and SubTime()
- : 20000 times within Forbid(), I still got 20 millisecond delays after
- : each 500 or so calls. I can't explain this immediately, but do note
- : that 20 milliseconds is 1/50th of a second, ie. one CIA generated
-
- You did a Forbid(), but not a Disable(). I believe many things happen
- during the Vertical Blank Interrupt, even if 20 milliseconds seems
- like a lot.
-
- Joerg Hoehle.
- Joerg.Hoehle@gmd.de hoehle@zeus.gmd.de
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