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Subject: Re: gettimeofday() system call timing curiosity
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> Try it. It doesn't matter. Alan was correct, my computer sucks. However,
> they won't give me a 10 GHz one (yet). Note that although gettimeofday()

On a 1.8GHz athlon the "same" case occurs almost all the time. Machines
without a TSC will probably never hit it due to the slow ISA transactions
to talk to the PIT
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