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| author |  Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com> | 2024-02-01 15:05:42 -0800 |
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| committer |  Copybara-Service <copybara-worker@google.com> | 2024-02-01 15:06:59 -0800 |
| commit | 971eada3489dcc991b59df44c559078bfaa1c024 (patch) | |
| tree | 897699bb9320ef32b5c912ca9ad92a2b68676a1b /absl/random/bit_gen_ref.h | |
| parent | 7339447a7f457f1d8efa6322c971e71afc304d32 (diff) | |
Decrease the precision of absl::Now in x86-64 debug builds
CycleClock::Now utilizes ABSL_INTERNAL_CYCLECLOCK_SHIFT to discourage reliance
on the raw CPU cycle counter values. As a side effect, it discourages
strictly-increasing assumption. Apply the idea to discourage over-reliance on
the precision of absl::Now/absl::GetCurrentTimeNanos.
Programs relying on a very high precision often exhibit portability issues on
machines with a lower cycle counter precision, or worse, race conditions. For
example, Apple M1 emulated x86 RDTSC only guarantees weakly-increasing RDTSC
values.
x86 clock speed is usually measured in GHz and is still precise after we drop 8
least significant bits.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 603493500
Change-Id: Ib1b00075109283f5dbcb39a43fe0ab722351a1e2
Diffstat (limited to 'absl/random/bit_gen_ref.h')
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