On 10/02/2007 07:26 PM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:33:58 -0400
>> Or, everybody wakes up at once right when we are taking a sample. :)
>
> nice try but we sample every timer tick; this code being timer driven
> makes it what you say it is regardless of *which* timer tick it
> happens at ;)
>
But we reduce the number of samples because some ticks just never
happen when the timers get rounded:
No rounding:
tick ............... tick
1 running 1 running
Rounded:
tick
2 running
In the first case the average is 1, but it's 2 in the second.
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