<div><div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Let's assume you were joking, but just in case you were not...<br></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Why this hostile tone? I didn't mean to be offensive. Unlike most people in this group, I don't have the brain of an einstein :)</div><div><br></div><div>So sorry for my stupidity, I just tried to give some feedback...</div>
<div><br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Clock speed is variable on all modern CPUs. In low power states some<br>
CPUs can turn off the clock completely. In some CPUs the clock speed is<br>
variable per-core and some can turn off one core without turning off all<br>
cores. Relating clock ticks to time is a minefield.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes I know that. I just meant having something that returns a number of ticks (not real CPU ticks, mea culpa) and the ticks itself. That would make it unit independent no? </div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, this is purely theoretical, as indeed picoseconds would do for all practical purposes I guess</div><div> </div></div><br></div></div></div>