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From: "Anthony.Appleyard" <MCLSSAA2 AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
Organization: Materials Science Centre
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:44:22 GMT-1
Subject: Re: Standard tiiming func's & O3+ cause odd errors
Reply-to: Anthony DOT Appleyard AT umist DOT ac DOT uk
Message-ID: <5AD5E65CCE@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>

  Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net> wrote:-
> Although CLOCKS_PER_SEC claims to be about 1000000, in reality the 55 ms
> timer ticks are just scaled to produce the clock() output, leading to big
> jumps. ...

  Oh indeed!?!?!?! Then how genuinely can a Gnu C/C++ program time a process
to the nearest microsecond or so???

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