Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:13:01 +0200
From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc: arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: get{bin,micro,nano}[up]time() - what precision ?
Message-ID: <63898.1018933981@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Apr 2002 16:29:22 PDT." <3CBB6252.6BAA4E90@mindspring.com>
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In message <3CBB6252.6BAA4E90@mindspring.com>, Terry Lambert writes: >SPARC had a 4uS resolution in ~1990; it did this by having a >hardware clock of very high resolution, and a low update >frequency, from which a delta was maintained in software, >rather than by having an update requirement for a full >timecounter like structure. As usual: Please don't pay attention to Terry, he is talking without checking his facts and appearantly doesn't even know that FreeBSD is way ahead of the pack when it comes to time keeping code. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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