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From: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gettimeofday(), clock_gettime(), timer_gettime()
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:15:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44C79539.4040506@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p737j205r2q.fsf@verdi.suse.de>

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Andi Kleen wrote:
> John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net> writes:
> 
>>  - gettimeofday() is slow, or so they say, needing several milliseconds
>> to execute.
> 
> It's not generally true, only sometimes. Please don't spread FUD.
> 

http://lwn.net/Articles/192214/

"X is a big offender, apparently because the gettimeofday() call is
still too slow and maintaining time stamps with interval timers is faster."

Or so they say.  I'm not the one spreading FUD; amusingly it takes me
50uS to run gettimeofday().

> -Andi
> 

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-26 16:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-26  2:51 gettimeofday(), clock_gettime(), timer_gettime() John Richard Moser
2006-07-26 15:22 ` Andi Kleen
2006-07-26 16:15   ` John Richard Moser [this message]
2006-07-26 16:08 ` john stultz

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