Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Dec 1999 13:36:35 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [patch] fastcall-2.3.32-B6, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support |
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> This is not that uncommon - there's a LOT of programs that care deeply > about wall-clock time. You'll find a few games avoid system calls like the > plague, but still call gettimeofday() because it's _really_ important to > know how time progresses..
Surely many such applications should be able to use the processor timestamp with suitable calibration?
-cw
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