Re: [RFC/PATCH v4 1/3] add high resolution timer function to debug performance issues
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- Noel Grandin <noel@peralex.com>
- Date
- May 21, 2014, 07:31 UTC
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- <537C5634.3050807@peralex.com>
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- <537BA8D1.1090503@gmail.com>
On 2014-05-20 21:11, Karsten Blees wrote:
> * implement Mac OSX version using mach_absolute_time > >
Note that unlike the Windows and Linux APIs, mach_absolute_time does not do correction for frequency-scaling and cross-CPU synchronization with the TSC.
I'm not aware of anything else that you could use on MacOS, so your best bet is probably just to use mach_absolute_time and document it's shortcomings.
Regards, Noel.
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