Re: [ANN] LuaProfiler 2.0

[Chris Marrin <chris@...>]

Glenn Maynard wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 11:55:39PM -0500, Rici Lake wrote:
>
> > On 14-Jun-05, at 7:19 PM, Chris Marrin wrote:
> >
> > > I have gotten recent experience with QueryPerformanceCounter(). I 
> >
> > I find this a bit puzzling. A double has 53 bits of precision. A day 
> > has 86400 seconds; log2 of 86400*3e9 is 47.88; in other words, a double 
> > can accurately represent a number of 3GHz ticks up to a bit over 34 
> > days. After that, it should lose one bit of precision, which should be 
> > barely noticeable. In a year, you would lose less than four bits of 
> > precision. If you are reduced to a precision of 100ms, you are losing 
> > something like 28 bits of precision. This suggests that you were doing 
> > arithmetic with floats rather than doubles; floats have 24 bits of 
> > precision, or 29 less than doubles, which would work out to about the 
> > loss you are reporting.
>
>
> Just to toss this out:
>
>   http://www.virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=53
>
> Are you using D3D, or something else that plays with the FPUCW?

Ahhhh, that explains a lot! Yes, we are using D3D, via Ogre. I remember 
on my last project we had a similar problem. My precision is low because 
D3D is resetting it to single-precision!!! Oh, well. I need to figure 
out how to get Ogre to set  D3DCREATE_FPU_PRESERVE.

Thanks! But damn, now I don't have a tricky, subtle problem to solve :-)

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