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Subject: Re: Speeding up timer
Date: 13 Oct 2003 14:25:11 GMT
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Arne <ahenric AT ccii DOT co DOT za> wrote:

> How can I speed up the timer so that my signal handler (on SIGALRM)
> is called more often than the default 18.2Hz?

Depends on what platform(s) your code will / must run on.  Real DOS is
reasonably easy, Windows XP or anything like are quite probably
impossible to influence in this regard.

To see what's possible, maybe you should inspect Allegro.
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