Hi Iñaki, Le lundi 29 septembre 2014 11:10:27 UTC+2, Iñaki Baz Castillo a écrit : > > Given that UV periodic timer is just an API sugar over the regular > timer, would not make sense that the loop execution time is taken into > account when setting the next timer period? > > This is: > > - Run periodic timer with interval 100 ms. > - First loop iteration takes 15 ms. > - Somehow libuv knows that and set the timer next period on 85 ms. > > Just wondering. >
This is how periodic timers was handled in many libraries and applications before the timerfd_* syscall introduction, but proved to be very difficult to get a small jitter and to compensate the phase over time. Best Regards, Jean-Christian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "libuv" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/libuv. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
