On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 07:01:39AM +0200, Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de> wrote:
> And another one:

does Stem deal with subsecond delay values? Under what circumstances?
AnyEvent guarantees subsecond accuracy currently.

Also:

   The ’hard’ attribute means that the next interval delay starts
   before the callback to the object is made. If a soft timer is selected
   (hard is 0), the delay starts after the callback returns. So the hard
   timer ignores the time taken by the callback and so it is a more
   accurate timer. The accuracy a soft timer is affected by how much time
   the callback takes.

It is nice to have a hard timer, but please implement clumping. Not
implementing clumping makes this type of timer completely unusable in
practise, as a time jump or stopping the program for a long time has makes
it potentially unusable.

(In fact, this inability to use Event's hard timers was one of the reasons
I was looking for a different event loop. EV doesn't do clumping, however,
as it has two timer types that solve time-jump and stopping-related
problems diferently).

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