Hi Compiler Developers,
foreword: please forgive if this is too low-level etc or if I don't understand it enough ;)
Since I'm glancing over lkml sometimes, I couldn't help but notice an announcement by Stefani Seibold, that a fast, reliable userspace timestamp function(s) are on the process to land in the Linux kernel.
The mechanism is said to be using VDSO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDSO sorry for wikipedia link... so lame I had to look it up ;) )
This being targeted to the 'development' kernel(s) so far, may be a bit off the charts, (but then the announcement says x86_64 has it already in glibc) any chances FPC could make use of it when it actually lands in user-visible configurations?
See the announcement here
Curiously,
-L.