From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <15ba52af934b85664a1f864d3d3a6b2c@terzarima.net> From: Charles Forsyth Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2011 00:19:32 +0100 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] nsec limits? Topicbox-Message-UUID: 09f85c26-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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.