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Re: explain analyze timings


  • From: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
  • To: Magnus Hagander <mha(at)sollentuna(dot)net>
  • Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers-win32(at)postgresql(dot)org, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: explain analyze timings
  • Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 15:31:48 +0000
  • Message-id: <1111332708(dot)11750(dot)362(dot)camel(at)localhost(dot)localdomain>

On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 14:42 +0100, Magnus Hagander wrote:
> >> There is. I beleive QueryPerformanceCounter has sub-mirosecond
> >> resolution.
> >
> >> Can we just replace gettimeofday() with a version that's basically:
> >
> >No, because it's also used for actual time-of-day calls.  It'd be
> >necessary to hack executor/instrument.c in particular.
> 
> Here's a patch that does just this.
> 
> On my system, the counter resolution is 3192090000 ticks per second
> (Intel Xeon CPU). On a AMD Athlon XP system, it's 3579545 ticks per
> second (a lot less, but still way way way better than gettimeofday has
> on win32).

Is this just a Win32 hack?

I've been looking for a sub-millisecond counter on other OS for a while
now...anybody know of any port specific counters elsewhere?

Thanks,

Best Regards, Simon Riggs




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