Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:51:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: eischen@vigrid.com (Daniel Eischen) Cc: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray), arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Monotonic" counter/register call - commit candidate. Message-ID: <200011200751.AAA03260@usr06.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1001118081414.28330A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> from "Daniel Eischen" at Nov 18, 2000 08:22:44 AM
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> I really hate "jiffie" and would prefer using just get_cyclecount > or even better get_counter. It would also be nice to know what > resolution the counter was, perhaps get_counter_res(). Isn't that obvious from the name of the function? A jiffy is 1/60th of a second, and has been at least since the early 6800 machines came out, if not before. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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