Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
For timers and whatnot, the fpgettimeofday call is simply not suitable. It is an incredibly slow call, and needs to be replaced with something else. get_clock() seems to be the way to go. vSDO is a very specific linux mechanism; I would recommend against it.
I note that IBM mainframes have a counter which is defined as incrementing one particular bit at a 1mSec rate. The behaviour of bits to its right varies depending on the machine, and bits to its left count as expected. I can't remember the fixed-rate bit position, but it strikes me as an elegant intermediate format where an absolute date etc. isn't needed.
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