On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 21:41 +0100, Peter Verswyvelen wrote:
Let's assume you were joking, but just in case you were not...
Why this hostile tone? I didn't mean to be offensive.
I'm sorry, I did not intend it to sound hostile. I mis-interpreted the "..." at the end of your sentence. Some people sometimes use this to indicate they're making a joke suggestion.
Clock speed is variable on all modern CPUs. In low power states some CPUs can turn off the clock completely. In some CPUs the clock speed is variable per-core and some can turn off one core without turning off all cores. Relating clock ticks to time is a minefield.
Yes I know that. I just meant having something that returns a number of ticks (not real CPU ticks, mea culpa) and the ticks itself. That would make it unit independent no?
I guess so. Duncan