linux-kernel - Re: gettimeofday(), clock_gettime(), timer

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Message-ID: <p737j205r2q.fsf@verdi.suse.de>
Date:	26 Jul 2006 17:22:21 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	John Richard Moser <nigelenki@...cast.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: gettimeofday(), clock_gettime(), timer_gettime()

John Richard Moser <nigelenki@...cast.net> writes:

>  - gettimeofday() is slow, or so they say, needing several milliseconds
> to execute.

It's not generally true, only sometimes. Please don't spread FUD.

-Andi
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