Problem I didn’t expect sleep(seconds) to be super accurate, but I must admit I was surprised over how inaccurate it is. See a benchmark below. Relative error of 10% for sleep times under 0.01 seconds is quite a lot, and may cause potential issues in, e.g., real-time control loops. using Plots func…

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/12770

Accuracy of sleep()

John_Hearns August 26, 2017, 6:56am 5

I found this very good article about how Linux keeps time

By a Wall Street programmer, so she/he should know about latency!
I guess the HPET stuff is a bit specific to the Intel architecture though. Anyone care to comment about other architectures?

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