[PATCH v4 2/2] server: Add USD support with timestamp updates.

[Zebediah Figura]

On 4/30/20 1:28 PM, Paul Gofman wrote:
> On 4/30/20 21:21, Zebediah Figura wrote:
>>
>>> It may then be possible to implement time using USD but that would
>>> reduce the clocks accuracy down to the server update frequency.
>> If Windows has updates that slow, I think this makes sense. We'd
>> probably want to use a different channel for +timestamp, though
>> [QueryPerformanceCounter(), I guess?]
>>
>> There's probably other consequences I'm not considering...
>>
> It might be potentially usable for GetTickCount() which has resolution
> around 10-15ms (though dangerous probably), but
> QueryPerformanceCounter() is designed as higher resolution timer, every
> game is using it and expects better resolution. 15-16ms is a long time.
> But proper Unix functions for getting high resolution time should
> already be quick, they also end up getting time from shared memory pages
> maintained by kernel.
> 
> 

Er, right, I wasn't saying that we should implement 
QueryPerformanceCounter() using the shared data, but rather we should 
use it to implement WINEDEBUG=+timestamp. Sorry if that came out ambiguous.