Re: 9.1: boot-time delay? [WORKAROUND FOUND]

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

On 2021-05-27 22:50, Mouse wrote:
> > A tick is not a duration.  A tick is a specific event at a specific
> > time.  It has no duration.  You have a duration between two ticks.
>
> At least as I use it and have heard it used, `tick' can also be used to
> refer to the interval between two of those events.  "How long are timer
> ticks on this hardware?" or "For the next few ticks, we crunch on
> this...".

I think that is mostly a bit sloppy terminology where they actually want 
to know the time between two ticks. :-)

  Johnny

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