[issue7946] Convoy effect with I/O bound threads and New GIL

[Nir Aides]

Nir Aides <nir at winpdb.org> added the comment:

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:41 AM, Larry Hastings wrote:

> The simple solution: give up QPC and use timeGetTime() with timeBeginPeriod(1), which is totally 
> reliable but only has millisecond accuracy at best.

It is preferable to use a high precision clock and I think the code addresses the multi-core time skew problem (pending testing).

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