On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 07:01:39AM +0200, Marc Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> And another one:
does Stem deal with subsecond delay values? Under what circumstances?
AnyEvent guarantees subsecond accuracy currently.
Also:
The ’hard’ attribute means that the next interval delay starts
before the callback to the object is made. If a soft timer is selected
(hard is 0), the delay starts after the callback returns. So the hard
timer ignores the time taken by the callback and so it is a more
accurate timer. The accuracy a soft timer is affected by how much time
the callback takes.
It is nice to have a hard timer, but please implement clumping. Not
implementing clumping makes this type of timer completely unusable in
practise, as a time jump or stopping the program for a long time has makes
it potentially unusable.
(In fact, this inability to use Event's hard timers was one of the reasons
I was looking for a different event loop. EV doesn't do clumping, however,
as it has two timer types that solve time-jump and stopping-related
problems diferently).
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