Re: gettimeofday() refresh period 15.6 ms (Denis Shirokov)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Denis Shirokov <cosmogen@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:38:16 +0300
> Cc: bug-gawk@gnu.org
> 
> It started outputting:
> 
> OK 0            STDESC-ROOT-SECH0: standart escaper (hex-code record) in
> root
> 
> OK 0.0156231    STDESC-PARENT-SECH1:  standart escaper (hex-code record) in
> parent
> OK 0            STDESC-QPARENT-SECH2:  standart escaper (hex-code record)
> in qparent
> OK 0            STDESC-ROOT-SECQ0: standart escaper (octal-code record) in
> root
> OK 0            STDESC-PARENT-SECQ1: standart escaper (octal-code record)
> in parent
> OK 0.0156291    STDESC-QPARENT-SECQ2: standart escaper (octal-code record)
> in qparent
> OK 0            QPARENT-MISC0: a-A minus-character-range in case if 3 (! 2)
> chars in range
> OK 0            QPARENT-MISC1: check that qparent returns characters in
> correct form
> OK 0            QPARENT-MISC2: unfinished []-parenthesis do not
> autosurrounded by char ']'
> OK 0            QPARENT-CALC0: no mask: only negative sub q-parents
> OK 0            QPARENT-CALC2: no mask: only positive sub q-parents
> OK 0            QPARENT-CALC3: [^-NOT qparent: no mask: only positive sub
> q-parents
> OK 0            QPARENT-CALC4: no mask: positive and negative sub q-parents
> OK 0            QPARENT-CALC5: [^-NOT qparent: no mask: positive and
> negative sub q-parents
> OK 0.0156262    QPARENT-MSKCALC0: with mask and only negative sub q-parents
> OK 0            QPARENT-MSKCALC1: [^-NOT qparent: with mask and only
> negative sub q-parents
> OK 0.0156233    QPARENT-MSKCALC2: with mask and only positive sub q-parents
> OK 0            QPARENT-MSKCALC3: [^-NOT qparent: with mask and only
> positive sub q-parents
> OK
> 
> Nothing has changed in the environment. That's strange.

I don't think nothing has changed is true.  Something probably has.
Try to think back what happened on your system between Mar 10 and
today.  New libraries and packages installed? Windows update?
something else?

(And you still haven't answered my questions, which might give some
direction to the search for the reasons.)