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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] nsec limits?
Date: Tue,  2 Aug 2011 00:19:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15ba52af934b85664a1f864d3d3a6b2c@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c938e021d7ec0bcfd9969ca0829c257f@terzarima.net>

ron, by contrast, was timing a particular short interaction, which might be repeated
a great many times (and thus mount up),
where non-trivial overhead of taking the measurement could easily hide significant differences
between two implementations, hence the use of a timer provided directly by hardware.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-01 23:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-01 12:17 EBo
2011-08-01 12:36 ` erik quanstrom
2011-08-01 13:22   ` EBo
2011-08-01 15:57 ` ron minnich
2011-08-01 17:12   ` EBo
2011-08-01 17:17     ` ron minnich
2011-08-01 20:25       ` EBo
2011-08-01 22:25         ` Charles Forsyth
2011-08-01 22:51           ` EBo
2011-08-01 23:06             ` ron minnich
2011-08-01 23:31               ` EBo
2011-08-01 23:14             ` Charles Forsyth
2011-08-01 23:19               ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2011-08-01 23:49                 ` EBo
2011-08-01 23:25               ` erik quanstrom

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