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In article <1992Dec19.190258.15117@midway.uchicago.edu> greg@dent.uchicago.edu (Greg Kuperberg) writes:
>On the Mac, the Toolbox, which is a very good RAM/ROM OS library, can
>easily provide you with 60 clock ticks per second.  They at
>least used to be synchronized with the monitor's raster refresh.  It's
>better to work with the Toolbox than to work around it, and whatever
>you do, don't work against it.

On most modern macs, the "TickCount" clock has nothing to do with video
update, but it still works at approximately 60 ticks per second. It does
skip ticks when there are a lot of interrupts (like LocalTalk activity),
so it's not advisable to use the tick clock for accurate timing.

The Time Manager provides drift-free millisecond and microsecond timers
and should be much better suited for timing tasks once you learn how to
use it.

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