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Date:      Mon, 20 Nov 2000 07:51:32 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        eischen@vigrid.com (Daniel Eischen)
Cc:        mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray), arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "Monotonic" counter/register call - commit candidate.
Message-ID:  <200011200751.AAA03260@usr06.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1001118081414.28330A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> from "Daniel Eischen" at Nov 18, 2000 08:22:44 AM

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> I really hate "jiffie" and would prefer using just get_cyclecount
> or even better get_counter.  It would also be nice to know what
> resolution the counter was, perhaps get_counter_res().

Isn't that obvious from the name of the function?  A jiffy is 1/60th
of a second, and has been at least since the early 6800 machines came
out, if not before.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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