Hello!

  It looks like adding the /usepmtimer switch to the boot.ini has fixed the 
problem for that PC. At least the same test cases no longer reproduce the error 
after a reboot.

  Source of inspiration: http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=106

24.07.2016, 21:59, "Alexander Ilin" <ajs...@yandex.ru>:
> Hello!
>
>   I'm having a weird problem with the benchmark word on my WinXP SP3 32-bit 
> machine, running the latest Factor from Github master.
>
>   The benchmark word reports times under or about 1 second (1,000,000,000) 
> for some piece of code, but the actual run time of the quotation is always 
> about 5-6 seconds.
>
>   For example, here's a sketch of a test session, without restarting a Factor 
> instance, done in the following order.
>
>   This code would show running time < 1 sec:
>
> [ do-smth ] benchmark
>
>   Then this code would show the correct wall time for both the time word and 
> the benchmark word:
>
> [ [ do-smth ] time ] benchmark
>
>   This would show the correct timing for both words as well:
>
> [ [ do-smth ] benchmark ] time
>
>   Finally, returning to this code again measures incorrectly (< 1 sec):
>
> [ do-smth ] benchmark
>
>   Has anyone experienced anything like this before?
>
>   Replacing [ do-smth ] with [ now do-smth now ] shows the correct time in 
> all cases, and by calculating difference I can see that benchmark calculates 
> incorrectly. But I can't figure out the reason.
>
>   On the other hand, replacing [ do-smth ] with [ nano-count do-smth 
> nano-count ] I see that benchmark is right. So, the problem is that for some 
> reason nano-count returns lower time difference for the code I run, depending 
> on the way I run it - with or without the "time" word.

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