On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 06:09:26PM +0200, Vlad GALU wrote:
I wrote a piece of software that has to get the current
timestamp, one way or the other, a huge number of times per second.
Apart from the empyrical tests one can perform to find out the
timekeeping scheme with the less
From: David Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The TSC is always fastest, but unfortunately under some circumstances
it can't be trusted (if your CPU has throttle modes to save power
or on some SMP systems where the two TSCs in each CPU give different
values).
If I remember correctly, all the SMP CPUs on
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