Precision timing

Started by acid2 September 25, 2005 09:51 AM

2 comments, last by acid2 19 years, 4 months ago

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451

September 25, 2005 09:51 AM

Hi, I want to get delta timing into my game, and in windows thats just a simple QueryPerformenceCoutner kind of thing - how is this achieved in Linux? What API calls are needed?

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igni ferroque

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September 25, 2005 12:51 PM

Use gettimeofday(2)

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AzCoder

150

September 25, 2005 01:25 PM

You can always use rdtsc (QueryPerformanceCounter is sometimes implemented with rdtsc):

http://www.linux.it/~rubini/docs/ksys/ksys.html

acid2

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September 25, 2005 02:48 PM

Thanks for the replies :)

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