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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:08:08 -0400
From: Dan Malek <dan@mvista.com>
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Subject: Re: Hanging in the Delay loop
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Gabriel Paubert wrote:

> .... The main use is
> SMP timebase synchronization but it is important.

I'll just make one little suggestion, based upon lots of years
of multiprocessor development.  Find a software implementation that
doesn't require synchronized clocks local to each processor, and
then be grateful for the performance enhancement when you can have
synchronized clocks.

	-- Dan

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