Jonathan de Boyne Pollard le escribe a Christian Scarborough:

JdBP>   You are.  18.2Hz is the frequency of the "system
JdBP> heartbeat" interrupt   which drives all thread scheduling in
JdBP> the system.  54ms is the   "quantum" for timeslicing.  You
JdBP> cannot get finer resolution than 1   quantum.

I'm curious: Why is 18.2Hz retained as the timer frequency?

loSmaH cha'

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