From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-03-05T14:48:21+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11991] Re: higher-resolution Time for Win32

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:11990] higher-resolution Time for Win32"
    on 01/03/05, Tim Thompson <tjt@nosuch.com> writes:

|I want to use Ruby for realtime MIDI and audio on Windows.
|To do that, I need high-resolution timing.  The existing C code
|in Ruby uses gettimeofday() to get the current time.
|I have made a modification so that, on Windows, it uses the
|timeGetTime() API to get a higher-resolution time.
|
|Before this change, Ruby's Time.now.tv_usec value on Windows 98
|was quantized to a large (40-50 millisecond) amount, because
|of the poor implementation of gettimeofday() in Windows.

Thank you for the information.  The place to be modified (i.e. where
poor implementation resides) is win32/win32.c.  Let me contact with
win32 maintainers.

							matz.