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Date:      Tue, 15 May 2001 11:30:24 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        dave <dleimbac@earthlink.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Gettimeofday Again...
Message-ID:  <15105.22944.435184.904578@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <29181216@toto.iv>

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dave <dleimbac@earthlink.net> types:
> Well I have been on the IRC in and out of mail list archives and cannot get
> a good answer to this question...
> 
> Why does gettimeofday perform so poorly on FreeBSD vs the same hardware on
> Linux 2.4.2?

Check the -questions archive. The first time this came up, someone
claimed that some bit of data was being cached by the Linux
gettimeofday call, but not by FreeBSD.

The more interesting question is which runs a *single* call to
gettimeofday faster, as that's the more likely scenario.

	<mike
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