On 2007-08-30 10:08:36 +0200, Peter J. Holzer wrote: > Here are some (measured) resolutions of gettimeofday on various systems: > > Linux/i386: 1 ms > Linux/SPARC: 2 ms > HP-UX/PA-RISC: 2 ms > Linux/Alpha: 976 ms (1024 Hz) > > Ok, so the Alpha is obsolete, and Sun and HP hardware seems to include a > timer with reasonably high resolution (both systems are a bit old I'd > expect newer gear get .
The sentence in the parentheses was supposed to read: "both systems are
a bit old - I'd expect newer gear to get full microsecond resolution".
Don't know how I managed to garble it that badly.
hp
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