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From: christoph@lameter.com
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 02:33:56 +0000
Subject: Re: Timer updates revision 7 (asm sets predicates/various fixes)
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On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, David Mosberger wrote:

> >>>>> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 08:30:19 -0700 (PDT), Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> said:
>
>   Christoph> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, David Mosberger wrote:
>   >> It occurred to me now why your numbers are higher: I linked my
>   >> program statically, whereas yours is probably linked dynamically?
>
>   Christoph> Correct. But why would this have an influence?
>
> I'm just trying to determine why our numbers were different.  I dont like
> unexplained differences.

The different numbers may be due to the different kinds of scaling
applied to the clock frequency to produce the ITC frequency.