Small change to the windows ticker.wip/andreask/ticker_comments

We already have a function to go from time to ms so use it.
Also expand on the state of timer resolution.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/rts/win32/Ticker.c b/rts/win32/Ticker.c
index 27c9070a50..36dbd222b9 100644
--- a/rts/win32/Ticker.c
+++ b/rts/win32/Ticker.c
@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ static VOID CALLBACK tick_callback(
 // be very useful for profiling with a max usable resolution of
 // 15ms. Unfortunately we don't have anything better.
 
+// Update as of 2020-04-02:
+// It seems we can get somewhat reliable resolution even for intervals
+// at 1ms which had an average error of <5%.
+// This seems to be the case starting at some point during the
+// Windows 7 lifetime and any newer versions of windows.
+
 void
 initTicker (Time interval, TickProc handle_tick)
 {
@@ -53,7 +59,7 @@ startTicker(void)
                               tick_callback,
                               0,
                               0,
-                              TimeToUS(tick_interval) / 1000, // ms
+                              TimeToMS(tick_interval), // ms
                               WT_EXECUTEINTIMERTHREAD);
     if (r == 0) {
         sysErrorBelch("CreateTimerQueueTimer");