From: Robert McGovern <robert.mcgovern@...>
Date: 2005-11-12T00:25:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Accurate Timing in ruby

> > So my PDA is more accurate than your machine (what OS is that?)
>
> Windows XP.
> I think I got better accuracy on my iBook as well, so it's probably a
> limitation of the OS functions ruby uses to retreive the time on Windows.

Mmm, I think your right ... my XP box reports:

irb(main):001:0> a=Time.now;while Time.now==a;end;Time.now-a
=> 0.016

for a Athlon 2800.