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Re:How a 20-year-old kernel feature helped USDS improve VA’s... by vageli on Friday June 30, 2017 @08:01PM (#14674370)
Do you have a link with more info? I'd love to read more about this.
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Re:How a 20-year-old kernel feature helped USDS improve VA’s... by lfowles on Friday June 30, 2017 @08:29PM (#14674502)
Sorry, no. It's not something documented other than a cryptic comment in the source code ( FPlatformTime::Seconds() ) assuming some knowledge of floating point number gotchas.

Edit: Here's a more detailed post o made about the specific gotcha if you're interested: https://community.gamedev.tv/t/why-is-fplatformtime-seconds-...

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