Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org> writes:
> Upon further investigation, it shows that microtime(9) on i386 uses
> port i/o, which is very slow on modern processors. Is there a way
> to improve this? This could help system overall, since microtime(9)
> is used quite often.

We can check the cycle timer, but the problem there is that we can
easily lose on a machine with a variable rate clock.

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