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Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 19:16:25 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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Subject: Re: [9fans] syscall 53
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> also, one cannot get close to 1ns precision with a system call.  a system call
> takes a bare minimum of 400-500ns on 386/amd64.

Sure, but accessing /dev/time is, if I guess right, orders of
magnitude slower, specially if you have to open the device first.

As far as I know, that was the only choice, to start with.

++L