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Subject: Re: [Patch] C1X threading support
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Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net> writes:
> Absolute timeouts is no good idea! We should stick with kernel-ticks when=
=20
> possible :-)

There is no such thing as a kernel in the C standard.  All it knows
about is the implementation and the program.  The best solution would
probably have been a timescale that counts the time elapsed since the
start of the program.

DES
--=20
Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no