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Subject: Re: user-mode port 0.44-2.4.7
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> Suppose I loop against xtime reaching a particular value.  While this is

xtime isnt used this way that I can see. jiffies however is. There are good
arguments for getting rid of most [ab]use of jiffies however. For one its
pretty important to scaling on both big mainframes and beowulf setups doing
heavy computation to reduce timer ticks