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Chapter 5: Managing Time and Time Intervals
The topics in this chapter cover the details of using the timer and time-of-day facilities of IRIX. The emphasis is on high-precision timing facilities used by real-time programs in Challenge/Onyx systems.
- "Using Interval Timers" discusses the use of timers, which interrupt a program when a certain amount of time has elapsed.
- "Using Timestamps" discusses the ways of getting the current time in order to record the moment when something happens.
- Using Interval Timers
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- Using Timestamps
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