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Re: gettime-res failure on Solaris 11/SPARC
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Bruno Haible |
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Re: gettime-res failure on Solaris 11/SPARC |
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Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:31:41 +0100 |
Paul Eggert wrote:
> > It doesn't work because it takes only 32 samples of current_timespec ().
> > In order to work reliably it would need 10 million samples.
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> Thanks for the fix. My puzzlement was more why one needs 10 million
> samples. Perhaps it's possible to alter the test somewhat so that 32
> samples would be enough, if we'd take them more cleverly.
Possibly. But even then, we would probably need to wait ca. 1 sec until
we get the "right" samples. And waiting such a long time is not OK
in a runtime function (as opposed to a configure test).
Bruno