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Corinna Vinschen skrev 2012-03-22 10:33:
> On Mar 21 23:59, Christian Franke wrote:
>> BTW: GetSystemTimeAsFileTime() apparently provides the same
>> resolution (at least on Win7 x64). So the more complex use of
>> SharedUserData.InterruptTime may have less benefit than expected.
> 
> On pre-Vista, the accuracy of GetSystemTimeAsFileTime is 15.625 ms,
> fixed.  On Vista and later it seems to be 15ms or better, but its
> resultion is not constant anymore.

I have definite memories of an (albeit odd) XP laptop with 10 ms
accuracy.  But that was years ago.  Hmmm?

Cheers,
Peter

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