Re: Winsock select timeout
"Scott McPhillips [MVP]" <org-dot-mvps-at-scottmcp> wrote in message
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"Mark Salsbery [MVP]" <MarkSalsbery[MVP]@newsgroup.nospam> wrote in
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but the thread switching period is probably 20 milliseconds.
Hi Scott,
I'm curious, where did you get that number from? That seems like a really
long time and it makes me wonder how my multimedia software works at all
:) Is it really that long?
Cheers,
Mark
The system timer interrupt interval is available from
GetSystemTimeAdjustment(). If my memory is right it was 20 msec for
NT/2K/XP. On my Vista machine it returns 15 msec.
Timer-based thread switching can't go faster than the system timer. But
who knows, with multimedia I/O they may have souped it up to do a thread
switch upon a multimedia interrupt. Sound cards don't need much help
though, because they contain hardware buffering that greatly reduces the
interrupt rate.
Multimedia software often calls timeBeginPeriod/timeEndPeriod to get a
faster timer interrupt interval, as low as 1ms.
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