Re: [INTERNALS-WIN] [PATCH] Microsecond resolution and accuracy on Windows

Hi Stas,

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stas Malyshev"
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2014

> Hi!
>
>> I'm also not sure how important it is how have it for 5.4. Does the
>> problem that this patch fixes exist only in older versions of Windows or
>> on all versions? What are the actual effects of this problem - is it
>> just lower resolution of microtime or there can be something seriously
>> wrong with the whole result? If it's just lower resolution, I'd prefer
>> this to go into 5.5 as the change is pretty extensive.
>
> I'd like also to hear more from Anatol and other windows devs on how
> important they think this is - I haven't done anything with PHP on
> windows for some time so I'd like more feedback.

From comments in bug reports and brief exchanges on Twitter in October, 
Pierre wanted to go back to using high-res Performance Counters like the 
previous 10+ years.  While Anatol explains the potential issues, and the 
low-res, but accurate, plain time functions should be used.

My changes provide the best of both, AFAICT.

Didn't get to correct 5.3 somehow last year...  :*(


- Matt