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29 Jul 2024 04:20:35 EDT (-0400)
  Re: 1 GHz CPU and it still cannot time things properly.  
From: Stephen
Date: 29 May 2012 15:12:05
Message: <4fc51f85$1@news.povray.org>
On 29/05/2012 5:33 PM, Warp wrote:
>    It actually doesn't surprise me that CPU clocks aren't adjusted to
> extreme accuracy because they don't need to. It's not like they have to
> precisely sync with anything. This especially so because most modern CPUs
> support throttling. (In fact, an error 0.6% sounds pretty small to me.)


last night before going to sleep and in the morning I went full steam 
ahead, at it. Maybe I just miss working for a living.

others you measured parts per million. When you expect to get a watch 
running to +/- 2 seconds a day it is galling to have to do it by iteration.

-- 
Regards
     Stephen


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