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Cc: "Yuriy N. Shkandybin" <jura@networks.ru>, current@freebsd.org,
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Subject: Re: Timers and timing, was: MySQL Performance 6.0rc1
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Run it on IBM thinkpad T43:
       null function: 0.00435
            getpid(): 0.27038
              time(): 4.67393
      gettimeofday(): 4.66421

gettimeofday is horribly slow.
The system has Intel 915PM chipsets, Pentium 1.86Ghz,
powerd daemon is turned off.