Suggestions on Avoiding syscall Overhead

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <86r6q9hnbs.fsf at dwp.des.no>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= 
writes:
>des at des.no (Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav) writes:
>> gettimeofday(2) returns a value in microseconds, but this does not
>> necessarily mean that it has microsecond precision.
>
>s/precision/resolution/

Actually:

s/precision/& or resolution/

Can I recommend that you not try the timestamping functions first,
get something simple like uname(2) working first, then contact
me and I'll help you get timecounters involved.

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