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JavaScript timing calculations could be more precise #106

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@JohnRiv

All of the timing calculations appear to only leverage Date.now()... It would be better to use User Timing and/or Resource Timing if the user's browser supports it, or High Resolution Timing if neither is supported. Reason being is if a system clock adjustment happens to occur when doing the timing, the results will be inaccurate. Plus those other APIs provide sub-millisecond timing data.

Only if High Resolution timing is not supported should you fall back to Date.now().

Surf-N-Perf can help streamline that for you if you want to simplify your code, and that supports older browsers that don't support Date.now() as well.

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