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Date:      Fri, 20 Oct 1995 10:26:22 -0400
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: clock running faster?
Message-ID:  <9510201426.AA09055@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199510192257.XAA05193@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References:  <199510191251.WAA16201@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199510192257.XAA05193@uriah.heep.sax.de>

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<<On Thu, 19 Oct 1995 23:57:17 +0100 (MET), J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> said:

> As Bruce Evans wrote:
>> 
>> The changes have the effect of making the Pentium clock the reference.

> I don't think this has been a good idea.

Please explain your reason for believing this, keeping in mind that a
similar technique was used on MicroVAXen in 4.3 (except using
microtime() rather than a purpose-built function).

-GAWollman

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