Daniel Eischen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Not to discount any of your suggestions, but isn't the better > performance of gettimeofday() (and perhaps clock_gettime() also) > in Linux because they have access to the time in userland and > can implement it without a system call? I seem to recall this > being mentioned before, I could be wrong...
Please don't bring this up again. Search the archives instead. There are very good reasons why this was solved the way it was in FreeBSD. Executive summary: a) gettimeofday() *is* a system call in Linux. b) gettimeofday() is slow in FreeBSD because it is correct. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
