Timers and timing, was: MySQL Performance 6.0rc1

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20051028200007.GP4115 at funkthat.com>, John-Mark Gurney writes:

>I was quite impressed by the speed up using the TSC over ACPI-fast...

The TSC is in essence a CPU register/counter which lives inside the
clock multiplier whereas the ACPI is an I/O port off somewhere in
PCI space on some bridge or other.

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