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Subject: Re: excessive use of gettimeofday(2) and other syscalls
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On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Manish Vachharajani
<manishv@lineratesystems.com> wrote:
> Lots of libraries assume that time is fast because it
> is fast under Linux.

Silly question, but why can't we make it fast too?

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Eitan Adler