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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