On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 11:28:56PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > Yeah, although in practice it works 99% of the time.
It breaks on a z990, which is nothing like a slow machine.
> This test in question *is* racy, unfortunately it's difficult to get a
> finer timing granularity without going to Time::HiRes, which is not
> tested at that point which introduces an alternate failure case.
The test checks for an absolute difference instead of the correct equal
or higher.
> For the moment I'm closing this bug, acknowledging that it's a potential
> problem, but one that occurs rarely enough (in my experience) not to be
> a real problem.
It is a problem to hide bugs, so I disagree with this.
Bastian
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