In message <9A6F6754-AAC6-11D7-BDC3-00306540A296 at smalltalkconsulting.com>
          John M McIntosh <johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com> wrote:

> Oh, and the other interesting issue is that we seem to call the  
> microsecond clock primitive a lot when
> Squeak is just idle doing nothing...  Say 6,186 times over 13.43  
> seconds.
I'm pretty sure this is a very platform dependent thing and we probably
ought to cut out all the clock trickery from the Slang code and stick it
in platform code where it can be done however suits the machine. At
least that way there would be no need to compromise one platform to suit
another.

tim
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