Re: [RFC 0/2] ABI for clock_gettime_ns

From: Andy Lutomirski
Date: Tue Dec 20 2011 - 20:08:10 EST


On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Arun Sharma <asharma@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/12/11 5:26 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>
>> On x86-64, clock_gettime is so fast that the overhead converting to and
>> from nanoseconds is non-negligible.  clock_gettime_ns is a different
>> interface that is potentially faster.  If people like the ABI, I'll
>> implement an optimized version.
>
>
> Didn't see any major objections to this proposal.
>
> Andy: will you be posting an optimized version?

Yes, probably in a day or two. It's mostly written, but I want to
generate some benchmarks to go with it.

--Andy
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