Timers and timing, was: MySQL Performance 6.0rc1

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <1130487786.4259.7.camel at massimo.datacode.it>, Massimo Lusetti write
s:

>For the records here is the result on a Linux kernel 2.6.12-1.1380_FC3
>(Fedora Core 3) on a P4 1.8G
>
>       null function: 0.00947
>            getpid(): 0.00988
>              time(): 3.80196
>      gettimeofday(): 4.04731

That is actually an interesting result because it could indicate
that RH is not too happy about the fast&loose timekeeping in the
default Linux kernel...

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