Re: Of time scaling and FPS

[Steve Baker <sjbaker1@airmail.net>]

Dmitry Samoyloff wrote:

> > I don't know of a machine that doesn't have microsecond
> > precision timers *somewhere* - but you may need to write a
> > handy wrapper function to use whatever mechanism works best
> > for a given OS.
> 
> So why SDL gives only a millisecond precision?

Dunno - I don't like SDL.  PLIB's timers are pretty much microsecond
accurate on Linux, BSD, Windoze, MacOS, OS-X, IRIX and Solaris...if
there is some other OS that couldn't do that, it must be a pretty
obscure one.

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