Re: Linux kernel and game performance?

[Shachar Shemesh]

On 26/10/10 01:26, Dan Kegel wrote:
> The game runs a secondary timing thread
> with THREAD_PRIORITY_TIME_CRITICAL, where it simply sleeps for 16ms
> and sends events to the main thread to tell it that a new frame is
> needed. On Linux the necessary timing accuracy is not available, so it
> wavers between 16ms and 20ms.

I thought TICKLESS did away with the timer resolution issues.

Also, I'm not aware of any easy high frequency timers in Windows. Which 
API does it use?

Shachar