Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 20:46:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: dave <dleimbac@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gettimeofday Again... Message-ID: <200105150346.f4F3kLE45720@earth.backplane.com> References: <200105150337.UAA19677@gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net>
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:Well I have been on the IRC in and out of mail list archives and cannot get
:a good answer to this question...
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:Why does gettimeofday perform so poorly on FreeBSD vs the same hardware on
:Linux 2.4.2?
Why should it matter? gettimeofday() is not something that is typically
called in a tight loop, it would be silly to optimize it. 17uS is
plenty fast enough.
Systems rarely have performance problems due to syscall overhead.
-Matt
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