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As I recall, we used this for system call testing/timing. (I worked at Be.)
by leakybucket 12y ago
As I recall, we used this for system call testing/timing. (I worked at Be.)
- niklasni1 12y agoYou can't just say you worked at Be and not tell more stories! When were you there and what did you do? Why do you think you didn't take over the world? Have you tried Haiku?
- mkramlich 12y agoindeed. Be belongs to a list of companies that would be great to hear insider stories about. also NeXT, Thinking Machines, Symbolics (sp?), Infocom, Cray, etc
- ComputerGuru 12y agoYes, as I understand it, is_computer_on and is_computer_on_fire were basically no-ops to benchmark kernel calls. One returns an integer and the other a double. But I could be very wrong, I have absolutely zero authoritative knowledge and this is simply an explanation I once heard that made sense to me.