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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:01:20PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> So the real question is, how many gettimeofday() per sec can Linux do?

Oh, about 3,531,073 on a 1Ghz AM thunderbird running 
Linux disks.bitmover.com 2.4.0-test5.

That's 283.2 nanoseconds per call, to save you the math.
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