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Date:      Tue, 24 Apr 2007 20:16:41 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=)
Cc:        Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>, David G Lawrence <dg@dglawrence.com>, "Jesper B. Rosenkilde" <jbr@humppa.dk>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Suggestions on Avoiding syscall Overhead 
Message-ID:  <4548.1177445801@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:13:59 %2B0200." <86r6q9hnbs.fsf@dwp.des.no> 

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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.

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