Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Tue, 12 Jul 2005 15:30:33 -0400 |
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On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 08:08 -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > Well, looking forward, you'll have sub-HZ timers, so none of this will > matter. Actually, looking at the above, 150 seems perfectly reasonable > to me, but 300 seems to be close enough. I'll run some numbers on > both. > > From your above email, I'm more convinced than ever that lowering HZ > is the right thing to do ...
Another example is sending MIDI clock. This is not possible at HZ=100 as the jitter is too much for external devices to lock on to.
Lee
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