How To Create a Really Accurate Timer

2007-05-08
1 min read

Some of the work on my current project requires accurately timing events, at a frequency of a few dozen per second (that means that each event has to follow the previous one within a few milliseconds). The resolution of those calls is so small, that even System.Threading.Timer can not handle it and lags behind….

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