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High resolution timers #13

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antaranyan opened this issue Nov 2, 2019 · 0 comments
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High resolution timers #13

antaranyan opened this issue Nov 2, 2019 · 0 comments
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The timestamp is not actually high-resolution. To mitigate security threats such as Spectre, browsers currently round the results to varying degrees. (Firefox started rounding to 1 millisecond in Firefox 60.) Some browsers may also slightly randomize the timestamp. The precision may improve again in future releases; browser developers are still investigating these timing attacks and how best to mitigate them.

Consider using performance.now() for browsers and process.hrtime.bigint() in Node.js.
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