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- From: uunet!hpfcdc.HP.COM!hp-sdd!donn (Donn Terry)
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- CLK_TCK is usually known as HZ (which is typically 50, 60, or 100).
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- CLOCKS_PER_SEC is used for clock() and is typically in microseconds.
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- For a while they were both the same, which would be a problem, obviously.
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- The committees didn't detect the problem until quite late in the cycle.
- Both ANSI C and POSIX are having to change as a result. The CLOCKS_PER_SEC
- name change was easy for X3J11; the corresponding changes in POSIX will
- be harder because of its status as a published standard and because it
- is built on ANSI C in part. Drafts of those changes exist, but have
- not been approved in any way.
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- For now: sysconf() will always give the "right" answer for CLK_TCK, so
- use that.
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- I'm speaking only for myself in this.
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- Donn Terry
- Chair 1003.1
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- Volume-Number: Volume 16, Number 20
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