Tricky Bits
Bits and Bytes is where we aren't afraid to look at how things work and get dirty with some reverse engineering and assembly language.
Programmers have always needed reliable timestamps and programming on Windows is no different. But getting accurate timestamps efficiently from user mode, a seemingly simple task that every operating system supports, seems to have at best made Microsoft jump through hoops for 30 years, and at worst eluded them completely.
Rob Wyatt