Re: new Date(), System.currentTimeMillis() and system clock accuracy
Numeron wrote:
jonbbbb wrote:
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Looks like it only handles 10ms on Windows Xp:
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Thanks for the speedy reply that was only posted like 10 minutes
ago :)
It seems then that on this machine the problem is unsolvable without
trying to simulate ~1ms in a busy method. Something which is not only
difficult, but really bad programming practice (busy methods are the
devil on many computers). Not cool. I see that the Thread class has a
sleep(millis) method. Is there any way to query how long a thread has
been sleeping (I dont see anything obvious in the api), and if so is
this any more accurate than the system clock?
-Numeron
Thread.sleep() is also constrained by the system clock resolution, as
well as by arbitrary scheduling algorithms. The truth is that
Thread.sleep() gives up control for at *least* n milliseconds.
If you really need more precise timing, you may have to find/write some
JNI code that creates a low-level timer with more resolution than the OS
defaults. This code is likely to be extremely system specific.
I don't think there is any way to do what you want to do in pure Java.
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