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  From: Evan Bourlotos <evan@cs.adelaide.edu.au>
  To  : David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2000 12:55:37 +0900

Re: High resolution C timer

Thanks!


At 12:51 PM 6/5/00 +0930, David Newall wrote:
>Evan Bourlotos <evan@cs.adelaide.edu.au> wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a high resolution timer available in GCC?, time and
>> clock are not good enough for my needs.
>
>Did you mean timer or time?  Using "man -k timer" yields "setitimer(2) -
>set value of an interval timer."  It apparently provides microsecond
>timers, but read the caveats carefully.  If you meant time look at ftime(3)
>or getrusage(2).  As is often the case, these answers were readily found in
>the manual.
>
>Remember that Linux is not a real real-time operating system, and if you
>might not enjoy great repeatability at millisecond resolution.
>
>
>
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