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  1. .\" $Id$
  2. .TH ENOUGH 8 "$Date$" "(c)1994 Larry McVoy" "LMBENCH"
  3. .SH NAME
  4. enough \- report timing interval duration
  5. .SH SYNOPSIS
  6. .B enough
  7. .SH DESCRIPTION
  8. .B enough
  9. reports the timing interval duration
  10. .BR ENOUGH .
  11. The required timing interval is determined experimentally to
  12. ensure that the timing results are accurate to within 1% in
  13. the spite of the system clock resolution and measurement
  14. overheads.
  15. It is necessary to measure
  16. .B ENOUGH
  17. experimentally because system clock resolution varies widely
  18. across systems, from as large as 10 milliseconds to as small
  19. as 1 microsecond, a range of four orders of magnitude.
  20. .SH OUTPUT
  21. The output is reported in microseconds as an integer:
  22. .IP ""
  23. \fC5000\fR
  24. .SH ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
  25. Funding for the development of
  26. this tool was provided by Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation.
  27. .SH "SEE ALSO"
  28. lmbench(8), lmbench(3), timing(3).