Rhialto wrote:

>On Fri 23 Jun 2006 at 11:09:04 +0200, Frank Kardel wrote:
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>>true. get*time is quick an coarse as it uses a cached value
>>and avoids accessing  any hardware. It is good for places
>>that traditionally accessed the struct  timeval  {mono_}time  structure.
>>It can also be used where resolution is not at premium.
>>the non-get versions try the best for maximum available precision.
>>for rnd -stuff I this you'd like these better.
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>Those names sound reversed to me, since the non-get versions do
>a more thorough 'getting' of the time.
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yes, it may seem that way, especially when one associates longer
words with more work. Still we have two things to consider here:
    - microtime() previously also did the whole work. Thus the
      new microtime() should not be less in effort.
    - changing that would bring us quite a bit away from *any*
      original (ours and FreeBSD) source.

The get* versions replace the kludgy int s = splclock(); tv = time;
splx(s); sequences nicely. And that without spls at all in timecounter
kernels.

>-Olaf.
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Frank