Fw: application slowing down

[J. Landman Gay]

On 8/20/02 5:36 PM, Karl Becker wrote:
> Do I remember correctly that HyperCard had some sort of bug that related 
> to ticks being incorrectly reported after using them a long time?  I'm 
> just having a foggy clue of this, I don't know if MetaCard inherited 
> this problem.

The problem isn't with HyperCard, which just asks the OS for the 
information. The problem is that some background processes that can 
cause the tick count to be thrown off, so relying on ticks for precise 
timing accuracy isn't a good idea. Ticks are accurate enough for general 
polling though, where small time deviations aren't important.

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