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SubjectRe: gettimeofday(), clock_gettime(), timer_gettime()
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Andi Kleen wrote:
> John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net> writes:
>
>> - gettimeofday() is slow, or so they say, needing several milliseconds
>> to execute.
>
> It's not generally true, only sometimes. Please don't spread FUD.
>

http://lwn.net/Articles/192214/

"X is a big offender, apparently because the gettimeofday() call is
still too slow and maintaining time stamps with interval timers is faster."

Or so they say. I'm not the one spreading FUD; amusingly it takes me
50uS to run gettimeofday().

> -Andi
>

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