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Date:      Sun, 19 Nov 2000 00:50:57 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: new monotime() call for all architectures. 
Message-ID:  <200011182251.eAIMp3J13407@gratis.grondar.za>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011190925260.767-100000@besplex.bde.org> ; from Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>  "Sun, 19 Nov 2000 09:30:12 %2B1100."
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011190925260.767-100000@besplex.bde.org> 

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> > Then where? clock.h has already been thoroughly objected to.
> 
> clock.c is a reasonable place for it.  On i386's, it needs to access
> `tsc_present' which is currently only in clock.c.  How much more
> (or less) efficient is the inline version?

One instruction versus oneinstruction-plus-function-call-overhead.

> <machine/random.h> is another reasonable place for it.

Sorta, except that other folks are saying that they want this too.

sys/systm.h?

M
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