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Date:      Thu, 02 Apr 1998 23:58:24 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        pb@fasterix.freenix.org (Pierre Beyssac)
Cc:        gljohns@bellsouth.net (Glenn Johnson), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: error when compiling kernel with SOFTUPDATES 
Message-ID:  <366.891554304@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Apr 1998 22:55:49 %2B0200." <19980402225549.AY32283@@> 

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In message <19980402225549.AY32283@@>, Pierre Beyssac writes:
>Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>> change "tv = time" to "getmicrotime(&tv);"
>
>Should getmicrotime() really be prefered in all cases ? From
>kern_clock.c, it looks like microtime() has much less overhead when
>you don't need a very accurate timestamp:

You got that backwards, look at the code as well as the comments.
microtime is expensive but precise. getmicrotime is fast but up to
1/hz old.


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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
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