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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited..
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:    The best kernel-internal time representnation is ticks, with a simple
:    baseline cache mechanism to convert it to other formats (e.g. as
:    required by NFS, UFS, userland, etc...).  Nothing beats ticks...
:    a binary fixed point format doesn't even come *close* to being better
:    then straight ticks.
:
						-Matt
						    

    Before this gets misinterpreted, the 'ticks' I am talking about is 
    not the kernel timer interrupt ticks... it's the high resolution cpu
    or 825x ticks we get.  e.g. frequency dependant on the timer we use.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@backplane.com>

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