Subject: Re: i386 uses slow clock routine with options NTP and options HZ=100
To: None <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu, mycroft@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Charles M. Hannum <mycroft@NetBSD.ORG>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/14/1996 20:27:53
... However, if you support arbitrary rates for HZ then the "shift"
stops being a simple shift and becomes a divide.
Who said anything about `arbitrary' values? In fact, a trivial
implementation with a variable-length shift that supports all the
currently allowed values of `HZ' is at most a cycle or two slower on
all the architectures I know.
There was absolutely *no* need for your ... strong response.