Re: [PATCH] MI: new timing command

[Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>]

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> Mark Kettenis wrote:
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> >> Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 10:15:27 -0500
> >> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> >> 
> >> On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 08:42:12PM +1300, Nick Roberts wrote:
> >> > Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
> >> >  > In that case you can copy the necessary guards from that file.
> >> >  > However, it does more than just getrusage - it also supports
> >> >  > platforms with times() but without getrusage, which IIRC includes
> >> >  > Windows, so it might be better to use it.
> >> > 
> >> > But as a last resort it returns elapsed time which would be wrong.
> >> 
> >> You keep saying this but I don't see why.  Why is it wrong?  On every
> >> platform where we can do it, we'll print usage; on platforms where we
> >> can't do it, the odds are pretty good that the OS isn't aggressively
> >> scheduling other tasks in while we're running, so wall time is pretty
> >> close to right.
> > 
> > I agree completely.
> 
> Is this important? This timing is entirely for diagnostic purposes, 
> so why try to make it work on every possible platform. We need to document
> that -enable-timing may fail, and that's it.

The point is to use get_run_time() from -liberty and never worry about
portability again.