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Pretty sure any sane software implementation of a simple seconds pointer would easily update faster than 1 Hz while using little to negligible CPU time in a Des
by jbmorgado 10y ago
Pretty sure any sane software implementation of a simple seconds pointer would easily update faster than 1 Hz while using little to negligible CPU time in a Desktop processor from the 90's and onwards.
- mschaef 10y agoThe Windows 1.0 clock (1988) had a 1Hz second sweep hand that ran on a 4.77MHz 8088. It's really just a couple clipped line segments each second. http://variableghz.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/windows-1.0-clock-app.jpg http://variableghz.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/windows-1....
- jbmorgado 10y agoYes, that was the point I was making. This is something computationally trivial as long as the code is written appropriately.
- mschaef 10y agoKeep in mind though, that the performance optimization the Windows article talks about is how to reduce the working set in memory more than the CPU consumption.