Re: [patch][rfc] quell interactive feeding frenzy

From: Con Kolivas
Date: Sun Apr 16 2006 - 02:18:34 EST


On Thursday 13 April 2006 01:25, Al Boldi wrote:
> Con Kolivas wrote:
> > mean 68.7 seconds
> >
> > range 63-73 seconds.
>
> Could this 10s skew be improved to around 1s to aid smoothness?

It turns out to be dependant on accounting of system time which only staircase
does at the moment btw. Currently it's done on a jiffy basis. To increase the
accuracy of this would incur incredible cost which I don't consider worth it.

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