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Job friendly Stopwatch?

Discussion in 'Entity Component System' started by drhodor, Apr 16, 2019.

  1. drhodor

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    What's the best way to get a job friendly stopwatch going? I don't want to send millis in, that doesn't make any sense for a job that is going to be scheduled at an undetermined time in the future ;)
     
    drhodor, Apr 16, 2019
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  2. Spy-Shifty

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    What do you want to archive?
     
    Spy-Shifty, Apr 16, 2019
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  3. Guedez

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    You either have to send the millis in, or read the current time every frame. your stopwatch can't work if it does not keep track of time
     
    Guedez, Apr 16, 2019
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  4. drhodor

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    @Spy-Shifty jobified networking rtt computation, among other things
     
    drhodor, Apr 16, 2019
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  5. drhodor

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    Exactly -- that does not suffice.
     
    drhodor, Apr 16, 2019
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  6. krzysie7

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    You could have a look at how Stopwatch is implemented, on Win32 it is calling QueryPerformanceCounter() from kernel32.dll (don't know about other platfroms), my guess is it works fine in a job, and newer versions of Burst even allow DllImport if i'm not mistaken, so this could work.
     
    krzysie7, Apr 17, 2019
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