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Date:      Thu, 18 Dec 2014 20:05:00 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
Subject:   Re: Change default VFS timestamp precision?
Message-ID:  <77322.1418933100@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <201412181436.31701.jhb@freebsd.org>
References:  <201412161348.41219.jhb@freebsd.org> <CAJ-Vmokkc-p4-keMExxT%2BwyjugA8zYRS2XRv6VucWnfH0iw_Pw@mail.gmail.com> <70449.1418843354@critter.freebsd.dk> <201412181436.31701.jhb@freebsd.org>

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In message <201412181436.31701.jhb@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin writes:

>> >Surely there has to be better ways of doing this stuff. Computers keep
>> >getting faster; it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility that we
>> >could see a compiler read, compile and spit out a .o inside of a
>> >millisecond. (Obviously not C++, but..)
>> 
>> A millisecond is pushing it, all things considered, it would have to
>> be an utterly trivial source file for a utterly trivial language.

>Eh, the use case I most care about is back-to-back updates to a directory on
>an NFS server.

My comments above was only about compilers in reference to Adrians point.

>I don't understand
>why you think TSP_USEC is slower than TSP_NSEC.  microtime() and nanotime()
>both just call bintime() and then convert the result using similar math.

Because of the pointless nano->micro conversion which makes TSP_USEC
take a division longer to deliver a less precise result than TSP_NSEC.

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