Date:	Mon, 7 Nov 94 16:23:52 -0500
From:	dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
To:	dolan AT fnoc DOT navy DOT mil
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: clock() problems

> Well, the PC goes at least to 10 nanosecond resolution, even now. There
> are plenty of 100 Mhz '486s out there, so whole nanoseconds is not such
> a reach or so far in the future as to be neglectable.  Probably a lot of
> applications could use profiling to that resolution even today.

No, I meant that the best resolution of the independent timer chips
available on the PC is around a microsecond (OK; 0.8 microsecond, but
who's counting?)  Since there are reliably no timers with better
resolution in a standard PC, there's no point in reporting any finer
resolution.

Perhaps we should set CLOCKS_PER_SEC (or whatever) to 1193046 ?

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