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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: rdtsc to mili secs?
Date: 6 Nov 2000 22:10:41 -0800
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Followup to:  <3A078C65.B3C146EC@mira.net>
By author:    Antony Suter <antony@mira.net>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> This issue, and all related issues, need to be taken care of for all
> speed changing CPUs from Intel, AMD and Transmeta. Is the answer of
> "howto write userland programs correctly with a speed changing cpu"
> in a FAQ somewhere?
> 

At least in case of Transmeta, RDTSC will return wall time.

	-hpa
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