Group: fa.freebsd.current




Subject: Suggestions on Avoiding syscall Overhead
From: Poul-Henning Kamp
Date: 4/24/2007 8:17:53 PM
In message <86r6q9hnbs.fsf@dwp.des.no>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= writes: >des@des.no (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) writes: >> gettimeofday(2) returns a value in microseconds, but this does not >> necessarily mean that it has microsecond precision. > >s/precision/resolution/ Actually: s/precision/& or resolution/ Can I recommend that you not try the timestamping functions first, get something simple like uname(2) working first, then contact me and I'll help you get timecounters involved. -- 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. _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"