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amluto
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High resolution timers and high uptime headaches
The right way to do this is:
scaled = raw * mult >> shift;
Calculate mult and shift based on the timer frequency. The multiplication likely needs to be done with a 96 or 128 bit output. If shift is forced to be >= 64 (on a 64-bit machine), then the resulting assembly code is short and fast.
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