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User space gettimeofday()

Posted Dec 20, 2002 0:19 UTC (Fri) by acristianb (guest, #1702)
In reply to: User space gettimeofday() by kbob
Parent article: How to speed up system calls

What are the side effects of gettimeofday?


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User space gettimeofday()

Posted Dec 20, 2002 20:54 UTC (Fri) by jmshh (guest, #8257) [Link]

None. But there were two conditions, the other being "infrequently
changing information". Updates require cache invalidation, and this is
better done when the data is really needed only.

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