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To: John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.net>
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Subject: Re: gettimeofday(), clock_gettime(), timer_gettime()
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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Date: 26 Jul 2006 17:22:21 +0200
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John Richard Moser <nigelenki@comcast.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