Monday, March 26, 2007

What time is it?

Someone asked for help today with a performance problem. I found their script doing 5000 "gettimeofday" requests a second. 5000! Per second! They were asking 50 times for each time it really even mattered in any way shape or form. They seem to be unable to issue a 'wait' request, this was their way of doing it.

I told them to not do that anymore.

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