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Re:If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” ... by derefr on Monday November 06, 2017 @02:58PM (#15638521)
> Timer alert is delayed ~10-20 seconds if you look at the screen as it hits 0

I wonder if that's something to do with timer coalescing. The visual timer ticks down in some "cheap" way, but to actually change the view and make a noise, it has an event set in the OS scheduler—and that event only goes off at some large granularity, to prevent the scheduler from burning energy.

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Re:If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” ... by fusiongyro on Monday November 06, 2017 @03:57PM (#15638950)
I agree, and I don't need millisecond precision on this, but I think multiple seconds is absurd.
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