[web-devel] new fast-logger and date-cache

[Gregory Collins]

On recent (>2009) Linux, you can call clock_gettime() with
CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE which is about 6x faster:

https://gist.github.com/3634708

On my workstation calling clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, ...) and poking the
value into a Haskell struct takes about 70ns, with CLOCK_REALTIME_COARSE
it's about 19ns (with a much lower stddev). Worth using for this
application if it's available. Of course, in Snap we do the "update the
clock every second in a thread" trick also.

G

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 4:10 AM, Kazu Yamamoto <kazu at iij.ad.jp> wrote:

> Bryan,
>
> >> To my experience, the assumption 2) is not right. getttimeofday()
> >> is implemented in user land in Linux 3 but it is a system call
> >> in Linux 2.
> >
> > Just a nit: your history here is not correct. gettimeofday has been
> > implemented as a vsyscall for a long time, maybe 5 years. And while it's
> > faster than int 0x80, it's not that much faster: 2x or so on modern
> hardware.
>
> Thank you for your correction.
>
> To whose who are interested in, additional information can be found
> from:
>
>         http://en.chys.info/2009/01/linux%E2%80%99s-vsyscall/
>
> Anyway, I believe we should avoid gettimeofday as much as possible
> to implement fast servers.
>
> --Kazu
>
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