Write a port driver to a serial-based external timer. Maybe an atomic clock.<div><br></div><div>=P<div><br></div><div>-mox<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Amy Lear <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:octopusfluff@gmail.com">octopusfluff@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 2:07 AM, Raimo Niskanen<br>
<<a href="mailto:raimo%2Berlang-questions@erix.ericsson.se">raimo+erlang-questions@erix.ericsson.se</a>> wrote:<br>
> The reason the provided profiling tools rely on now/0 is mostly<br>
> that it has been around as long as they, plus the fact that<br>
> now/0 never moves backwards, mostly moves forwards kind<br>
> of sanely and is fairly lightweight makes it a nice but possibly<br>
> somewhat inaccurate compromise for a generic profiling tool.<br>
<br>
</div>This makes sense.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> No. There is currenly nothing better built in than erlang:now/0 and<br>
> os:timestamp/0. They could probably be improved on Windows but it<br>
> was quite a while since we had anyone requiring (as in providing<br>
> resources) us developing Erlang for Windows.<br>
><br>
> Side note: timer:tc/2,3 is about / has been converted to use<br>
> os:timestamp/0 instead.<br>
<br>
</div>Okay, good to know. I'm continuing to look into it from my end, and<br>
maybe I'll find something that could be usable to other people.<br>
<br>
Thanks for your time and attention.<br>
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