gettimeofday() revisited
John M McIntosh
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Tue May 14 00:10:06 UTC 2002
>I still have to install the itimer VM on the UML environment and see how
>much better it is. Didn't have time for that yesterday (nor today, nor
>tomorrow...) and I mainly wanted to falsify the statement that calling
>gettimeofday() x-thousand times per second doesn't impact system load ;-)
You might want to try a pthread implementation too. I'm not sure
about the impact of the sig alarm on system calls and how good the
error checking is for that condition thruout the unix vm.
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