Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:44:17 -0800 | From | Joel Becker <> | Subject | Re: Clock monotonic a suggestion |
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On Fri, Mar 21, 2003 at 02:17:44PM +0100, Martin Waitz wrote: > why don't you simply use asm("rdtsc") ? > (ok, you should make sure that you always ask the same processor and > stuff, but using the built in TSC seems to do everything you want...)
It does. That's the point. monotonic_clock() is intended as a portable and consistent wrapper around such access. Otherwise, any module that needs such access must do system specific work (TSC on x86, cyclone on x86-x440, other stuff on S/390, etc). In addition, having speedstep handling in one place is a good thing.
Joel
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