Re: gettimeofday() system call timing curiosity

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 8 Mar 2002 20:43:13 +0000 (GMT)

> Try it. It doesn't matter. Alan was correct, my computer sucks. However,
> they won't give me a 10 GHz one (yet). Note that although gettimeofday()

On a 1.8GHz athlon the "same" case occurs almost all the time. Machines
without a TSC will probably never hit it due to the slow ISA transactions
to talk to the PIT
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