Re: micro second timestamps from a regression test progrsm

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

That's the correct call. It uses the Xen monotonic timer, or the UNIX 
equivalent. This is current gettimeofday(), but could easily be upgraded to a 
higher resolution timer on UNIX (as Robert suggests) if necessary (which it 
isn't at the moment for your tests).

Anil

On 16 Nov 2011, at 12:09, Haris Rotsos wrote:

> I found something at OS.Clock.time() (unit -> float). This I think
> binds back to the libc gettimeofday.
> 
> On 16 November 2011 12:02, Richard Mortier
> <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ought to be pretty easy to add as a c extension to the unix-* backends (i 
>> think- happy to be contradicted... :)
>> 
>> On 16 Nov 2011, at 10:29, Haris Rotsos wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> i was wondering how I can get microsecond timestamps from a test
>>> progrm of the mirge library. I tried the Unix.gettimeofday, but the
>>> module is not include at compile time. Is there some other module I
>>> can use?
>>> 
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>> 
>> R.
>> 
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