[ntp:hackers] Non-monotonic time on NT

M. Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Mon May 14 18:34:01 PDT 2007


In message: <46490D67.2070800 at udel.edu>
            "David L. Mills" <mills at udel.edu> writes:
: Can a Windows userland program read the TSC directly? I know the 
: equivalent PCC on the Alpha can.

Only if the OS is configured to allow such access.  Most are because
popular benchmark programs do this and their developers want the
benchmarks to look good...

Warner


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