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OK.

I read the document and understood it I guess.
Very interesting, and well engineered.

On x86/i386/amd64, could not all this be replaced by a simple call to apic timer ?
We would get the timestamp, we can even store it, make calculation on top of it.

My jugement may miss something important though. That is why I ask :)


--š
Jog