I am having a degree of bother with the Time::Hires module, running on Win98; The output of the following snippet looks something like this:

0
0
0
0
{...repeated several hundred times}
0.0500000715255737
0.0500000715255737
0.0500000715255737
0.0500000715255737
{repeated several hundred - about 6-700 - times}
0.110000014305115
0.110000014305115
0.110000014305115
{you begin to get the picture...}
{etc}
4.94000005722046
4.94000005722046
4.94000005722046
4.94000005722046
5

I understand that the module may not have marvellous performance on windows, I was under the impression that this was in the order of milliseconds being possible, but not much better. My issue is the repeating of the same value (despite $t being refreshed on every loop), at approx. 0.06 second intervals, which is quite a bit worse than milliseconds. Is this a problem with my code, or have I just misunderstood the appallingness of Windows? Incidentally, all I want is up to 1/100th of a second, and cross-platformability. Is this too much to ask? 
use Time::HiRes qw(time);
$thu = "5.00";
$a="0";
$s=time;

while ($a=="0"){
$t=time;
$f=($t-$s);
print "$f\n";
if ($f==$thu){$a="1";}
}

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Any help much appreciated :-)

In reply to Time::Hires Granularity by pseudosocrates

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