Re: What is a typical precision of gettimeofday()?

I plan to send patch to pg_test_timing in a day or two

the underlying time precision on modern linux seems to be

2 ns for some Intel CPUs
10 ns for Zen4
40 ns for ARM (Ampere)

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Hannu

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On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 7:48 AM Andrey M. Borodin <x4mmm(at)yandex-team(dot)ru>
wrote:

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> > On 19 Mar 2024, at 13:28, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
> >
> > I feel that we don't actually have any information about this
> portability concern. Does anyone know what precision we can expect from
> gettimeofday()? Can we expect the full microsecond precision usually?
>
> At PGConf.dev Hannu Krossing draw attention to pg_test_timing module. I’ve
> tried this module(slightly modified to measure nanoseconds) on some
> systems, and everywhere I found ~100ns resolution (95% of ticks fall into
> 64ns and 128ns buckets).
>
> I’ll add cc Hannu, and also pg_test_timing module authors Ants ang Greg.
> Maybe they can add some context.
>
>
> Best regards, Andrey Borodin.