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On 16 Apr 2002, Robert Love wrote: > On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 20:49, David Mosberger wrote: > > > But since it's popular, I did measure it quickly on a relatively > > slow (old) Itanium box: with 100Hz, the kernel compile was about > > 0.6% faster than with 1024Hz (2.4.18 UP kernel). > > One question I have always had is why 1024 and not 1000 ? > > Because that is what Alpha does? It seems to me there is no reason for > a power-of-two timer value, and using 1024 vs 1000 just makes the math > and rounding more difficult. maybe because of the old TICK_SCALE macro ... - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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