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From: EBo <ebo@sandien.com>
To: <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] nsec limits?
Date: Mon,  1 Aug 2011 18:49:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c99dfd1e002e8e09dbb5fcf6d0b45e04@swcp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15ba52af934b85664a1f864d3d3a6b2c@terzarima.net>

 On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 00:19:32 +0100, Charles Forsyth wrote:
> 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.

 With the course timing I am currently doing this should be OK, but if I
 end up doing finer scale testing it will probably be in the us range.
 So, I would like to figure out how to do low overhead measurements if it
 will not take a lot of my time to get it working.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-01 23:49 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
2011-08-01 23:49                 ` EBo [this message]
2011-08-01 23:25               ` erik quanstrom

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