Re: 2.4.23aa2 (bugfixes and important VM improvements for the high end)

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Mar 05 2004 - 10:02:53 EST



* Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I thought time() wouldn't be called more than 1 per second anyways,
> why would anyone call time more than 1 per second?

if mysql in fact calls time() frequently, then it should rather start a
worker thread that updates a global time variable every second.

Ingo
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