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RE: gettimeofday() does not returns usec resolution
- From: "Ralf Habacker" <Ralf dot Habacker at freenet dot de>
- To: "Cygwin" <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 21:05:54 +0100
- Subject: RE: gettimeofday() does not returns usec resolution
>
>
> > Hmm. I do remember this patch. Can you submit this to cygwin-patches
> > in the correct format: http://cygwin.com/contrib.html ?
>
> Given enough time, yes (never hacked that one, but it seems that only
> winsup/cygwin/times.cc would need to be modified).. anyway of course I'm one of
> the few that actually would like to have this feature so I guess there's no big
> hurry.
>
> Of course the number reported by PerformanceTimer has an unknown offset with
> system time (it appears to start at 0 at program start, but that's not clearly
> specified) so I would have calculate an initial "offset" in the "old" way... this
> would give 3-4 microsecond precision on "deltas" but an initial uncertainty of
^^^^^
> the usual 15 milliseconds or so.
>
This is a output of the mentioned profiler. It say about a minimal time of about 1-2 us. May the difference be
caused by the cygwin.dll overhead ? (We're using the native functions, not gettimeofday()).
[1828] EmptyTest count: 100 time: (min) 1 [us] (max) 2 [us] (sum) 169 [us]
> I guess that it's better that having that uncertainty between ANY two
> measurations... but if someone has some other idea.. please suggest =)
>
> > Do you have an assignment on file with Red Hat?
>
> Sorry but english knowledge doesn't let me understand "assignment on file", could
> you explain it to me with other words?
>
> > >-------
> > >int gettimeofday(struct timeval *tv, struct timezone *tz)
> > >{....
> > >}
> > >------------
>
> A note for everyone: that implementation was taken from tim Prince's message on
> lmbench and of course lacked any syncronization with real time as was used only
> for deltas.
>
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