On Fri, 16 Apr 2010 15:10:19 +0300, Tiago Vignatti <[email protected]> wrote: > Some Linux systems might not want to link against rt and pthread libraries > simply to implement monotonic clock (GetTimeInMillis). For those, use a direct > syscall instead. This is discouraged if someone doesn't know what's doing. > > This patch keeps the new syscall version disabled by default - therefore not > changing the original behaviour of the xserver build. > > One, using this patch, should worry about a possible performance degradation > due it's not going through optimized code in C library. Therefore, the simple > program bellow (kudos to Adam Jackson) should performs equally in the > practice, > for both syscall and C library implementation:
I don't think we should do this until we've exhausted the avenue of getting the call moved into glibc.
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