Well the issue is the smalltalk code is calling the primitive every 2-3  
milliseconds.
This is above and beyond the VM calling the millisecond clock for  
internal VM usage.

On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 06:18  PM, Tim Rowledge wrote:

> 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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