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In message <20060126162032.A16564@newtrinity.zeist.de>, Marius Strobl writes:

>One other thing that might cause problems regarding your work is
>that the tick counters are not in sync across the CPUs of a MP
>system.

Yes, this is outstanding, see my discussion with jhb about this.

Synchronizing the counters will not be necessary.

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