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OLS: On how user space sucksOLS: On how user space sucksPosted Jul 21, 2006 7:37 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)Parent article: OLS: On how user space sucks
I think it's more that *when the smart scheduler was implemented* (XFree86 4.1?) gettimeofday() was considered too slow (for tight inner loops when processing multiple requests from clients all at once).
The tradeoff might well have changed since then.
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OLS: On how user space sucks Posted Jul 21, 2006 9:43 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (Ah, I see davej mentioned this. Thanks for the transcript!)
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