[hatari-devel] Main_GetTicks really useful ?

[Nicolas Pomarède]

Le 30/01/2011 22:21, Eero Tamminen a écrit :

> The point of it is not to get accurate wallclock, but to get process time
> (which Linux times() provides to user-space at 100Hz tick which isn't
> accurate for very short intervals) as that's not affected by other processes
> and is therefore more accurate measure of how much CPU time is spent by that
> _particular_ process _over time_, not how the clock advance in the whole
> system.

My bad, I read this too fast :) I didn't see it was to measure process' 
time, not overall elapsed time (the name Main_GetTicks is a little 
misleading, I thought it measured the same thing as SDL_GetTicks but in 
a different way).

So, let's leave this as it is.

Nicolas