Coming from the Windows platform I usually used the Windows Multimedia Timer to produce periodic callbacks with a resolution of 1 ms +-1ms. So I could indeed produce 1000 quite equidistant callbacks per second. To achieve this accuracy without doing busy-waiting MS used the High Precision Event Timer, which directly accesses a hardware driver.
I was hoping to find something like a boost library or so that provides a cross platform implementation for these kind of high precision timers. But all I found is the Boost-ASIO timers. Since they don't talk about precision at all, I'd assume that they won't meet the requirement a high precision. A jitter of 10ms would be way to much.
So.. is there something like a cross platform implementation of a High Precision Event Timer? Or might Boost-ASIO already be precise enough? Maybe Boost internally uses the HPET and just didn't mention it anywhere.
