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- From: archer@elysium.esd.sgi.com (Archer Sully)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: How Accurate Is The System Clock
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.194149.27172@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:41:49 GMT
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- In <AJ3U.92Dec22153748@larch.cs.virginia.edu> aj3u@larch.cs.virginia.edu (Asim Jalis) writes:
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- *I am writing some programs on the SGI that requires millisecond
- *timing accuracy. How accurate is the clock on these machines?
- *with the daemons and the multi-process environment. If someone
- *has references for timing measurements or some ideas about how
- *such timing can be achieved, I would really appreciate hearing
- *from them.
- *
- *Responses can be communicated to me through e-mail.
- *
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- *
- *Asim Jalis.
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- fast itimers are rumored to be micro-second accurate.
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- -- archer
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