An engine will not break if time is slowed down a bit.sje wrote:Monotonicity is not a guarantee of anything other than monotonicity. If scratch a tally mark on the bathroom wallpaper every time I take a leak, that's monotonic but it's not a reliable time keeper.
An engine might very well break if time goes backward.
This is why the advice was to use a monotonic timing source.
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