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[qbproger]

I didn't know if this would affect us or not, but I found it interesting.  Overall, I'd think in cases we're calling currentTimeMillis() we need the actual time.  Still an interesting idea for speedup...

http://dow.ngra.de/2008/10/27/when-systemcurrenttimemillis-is-too-slow/

[Marvin Fröhlich]

Interesting article. But in xith we need much more accuracy than the author of this article does. But this shouldn't be a problem, since time is polled only once per frame in xith and this time is passed as an argument to any method, that needs the current game time and which uses xith's Updatable, ScheduledOperation, etc. schemes. Additionally xith doesn't use System.currentTimeMillis(), but System.nanoTime(), since currentTimeMillis() provides insufficient accuracy and is known to be lagging on some OSes like Windows.

Marvin