Re: What is a typical precision of gettimeofday()?

From: Hannu Krosing <hannuk(at)google(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "Andrey M(dot) Borodin" <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: What is a typical precision of gettimeofday()?
Date: 2024-07-03 10:31:27
Message-ID: CAMT0RQT_kaQK=xVtxPihSjPEsEq2TiPrpoLAu_5HpLp68VwWxA@mail.gmail.com
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On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 10:03 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
Keep in mind also that instr_time.h does not pretend to provide
> real time --- the clock origin is arbitrary. But these results
> do give me additional confidence that gettimeofday() should be
> good to the microsecond on any remotely-modern platform.

The only platform I have found where the resolution is only a
microsecond is RISC-V ( https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unmatched
)

Everywhere else it seems to be much more precise.

--
Hannu

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