- question UtilTime

From: [at]} <Gérard>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 23:48:56 +0200

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From: "Frans-PieterVonck" <Frans-PieterVonck{([at]})nowhere.xy
To: "BlackBox Mailing List" <blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 11:18 PM
Subject: [BlackBox] - question UtilTime


> There is something I don't understand in the program UtilTime
> What is the function of these lines?
>
> dt := MAX(REAL);
> dt := MIN(t1 - t0, dt);
>
> If a discard the statement I get the following output
>
> dt = 1.117463398259133E-6
>
> instead of the previous 0,83 µs

The result of t1 - t0 vary from time to time. The resolution of the counter
is the minimum of these results, and it's what the procedure calculates. If
you discard the MIN statement (and the initialization of the loop), you may
get different results at every call.

Cheers.

Gérard

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