Re: [patch] fastcall-2.3.32-B6, SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support

Marc Lehmann (pcg@opengroup.org)
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 06:11:39 +0100

On Tue, Dec 14, 1999 at 06:24:45PM -0500, "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@kf8nh.apk.net> wrote:
> Every X event carries a timestamp. Every expose event, every mouse-move

Would it be possible to base these kind of events on a jiffie-count based
clock? (prefereably not by touching gettimeofday but by implementing a posix
real time clock)?

That would require sourcecode changes, but hey, xfree would probably
implement this, if feasible.

Surely, X programs doing accurate time measurements do not rely on the x
timestamps?

If monotony is a problem (it most probably is), then X could increment the
us counter on each call to its own gettimeofday function.

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