Re: Accurate CPU timing on Windows -- How?

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 15:51 -0500, Jess Holle wrote:
>       * On Windows [at least], System.currentTimeMillis()'s resolution
>         is not milliseconds but rather about 0.01 seconds.
>               * We could use System.nanoTime() instead, but it appears
>                 that acquiring this takes a bit more time.  Moreover,
>                 for the usages in question millisecond accuracy is
>                 sufficient, but 0.01 seconds is not always.

Jess,

this is a kernel issue (kernel precision is typically 10/15 ms), it's
not related with java.


Michele

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