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Re: [MiNT] MiNTlib timing related functions behavior/performance



On 05/03/14 12:03, Eero Tamminen wrote:
Hi,

On keskiviikko 17 huhtikuu 2013, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi> writes:
However, gettimeofday():
* uses Tgettimeofday() on MiNT and Tgettime() & Tgetdate() on TOS.
* Then it does mktime() which does timezone stuff, and if non-null
   value is given as timezone arg (like Quake does), it will also
   call timezone stuff directly.
...
But mintlib should not be calling the localtime stuff for the timezone,
this is meant to be the _kernel_'s idea of the timezone.  If MiNT does
not keep track of a time zone gettimeofday should just return zero in
the timezone argument.
Has somebody looked into this timezone stuff?

Not here. It's not high priority for me.

gettimeofday() being unreasonably slow in MiNTlib is pretty nasty.

I agree it's nasty and should be fixed, but unless someone steps
up it most likely won't be done.

Alan.