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I like the idea of NTPD in Rust. Is there anything to read about how well ntpd-rs performs? Would love a new column for chrony's comparison: https://chrony-project.org/comparison.html

Particularly interested in the performance stats, how well the daemon keeps time in the face of various network problems. Chrony is very good at this. Some of the other NTP implementations (not on that chart) are so bad they shouldn't be used in production.

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In our internal testing we are very close to Chrony with our synchronization performance, some of our testing data and an explanation of our algorithm is published in our repository: https://github.com/pendulum-project/ntpd-rs/tree/main/docs/a...

Given the amount of testing we (and other parties) have done, and given the strong theoretical foundation of our algorithm I’m pretty confident we’d do well in many production environments. If you do find any performance issues though, we’d love to hear about them!

Ah okay. Nice. Love to know whether you have plans to also provide gps time synchronisation? I guess if the point was to deal with security issues surrounding network communications I’d guess the answer is no.

But if the goals was also be a dominant player in time synchronisation then it might be a nice to have.

BTW. Letsencrypt certificates are the best. I install them with pretty much every installation of my other software. Thanks guys.

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