> 8253 I think (well nowdays random bit of integrated chipset). The
> gettimeofday() call reads it - but its actually quite slow to read.
> Pentium and higher processors use the RDTSC CPU internal time clock
> for the same purpose
How does this for for SMP machines where presumably they can get out
of sync. ?
-cw
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