Re: Bottleneck on /dev/null

Bernd Petrovitsch (bernd@gams.at)
Thu, 20 Mar 2003 17:33:32 +0100

Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> wrote:
>On Thu, 20 Mar 2003, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
>> unsigned long amount = 0L;
>
>try 'volatile' to get the deviation down...

.. and try "long long" to avoid an overrun.

Bernd

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