On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 02:45:15PM -0400, Stephen D. Williams wrote:
> When this is rewritten, I would strongly suggest that we find a way to
> make 'gettimeofday' nearly free. Certain applications need to use this
> frequently while still being portable. One solution when you do have
> clock ticks is a read-only mapped Int. Another cheap solution is
> library assembly that adds a cycle clock delta since last system call to
> a 'gettimeofday' value set on every system call return.
The upcoming x86-64 port supports vsyscalls for just that purpose.
-Andi
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