Subject: Re: Proposed changes to cc_microset().
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 07/08/2004 11:17:38
matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:
> considering you can end up at less than 1/2 the clock that means you'll
> be more than half a second out by the next second. seems pretty severe,
> ie, it needs to be handled correctly... at 10 second interval, you'd
> end up all over the place...
Remember, this isn't overall timekeeping, just sub-second
timekeeping. Running at half-speed for 10 seconds just means you'll be
off by as much as a second during that interval, not that you'll
accumulate overall drift.
- Nathan