On Thursday 21 April 2005 07.45, Jack O'Quin wrote:
[...]
> > Is calling gettimeofday this many times in the realtime thread a
> > wise idea?
>
> How often? Once per MIDI event? That should be OK, I suppose.
I did a quick hack for testing some custom hardware on an embedded
system, where I just polled gettimeofday() to get some code to run at
10 kHz. (Didn't care about the occasional stalls - which were very
few anyway, as this was the only process actually doing anything at
the time.) That is, a bunch of gettimeofday() calls for each loop,
times 10 kHz. Worked just fine.
This was on a 300 MHz low power Pentium clone, which has about 10-15%
of the power of a 1 GHz P-III CPU. I'm not even sure if Linux is
using RDTSC for gettimeofday() on this thing...
//David Olofson - Programmer, Composer, Open Source Advocate
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