Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:15:53 -0400 | From | John Richard Moser <> | Subject | Re: 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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