[Bug libfortran/15516] assembly snippets for nano second resolution wall clock time

[jb at gcc dot gnu dot org]

------- Comment #4 from jb at gcc dot gnu dot org  2007-05-19 17:51 -------
There are enough pitfalls with using rdtsc that I don't think it's justifiable
to use it for a general purpose timing routine like system_clock. See e.g.:

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0505.1/1463.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDTSC

http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/11/4/173

http://lwn.net/Articles/209101/

For a general purpose library like libgfortran I think the best way is to use
something reasonably portable and consistent, and let the kernel people worry
about providing a usable api such as gettimeofday or clock_gettime using
whatever HW they deem the most appropriate behind the scenes.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15516