[petsc-dev] outdated clocks?

[Satish Balay]

On Sat, 26 Jan 2013, Barry Smith wrote:

> 
>   Satish,
> 
>      Do we actually ever use dclock(), getclock() or read_real_time() (might be used on BlueGene)? Can some or all o
f them be removed?

None of these are tested [except for nt_time() which gets enabled on windows]

Perhaps we should default to MPI_Wtime()? We appear to check for cray
MPI and default to it. Perhaps its also the prefered one bluegene?

Satish

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   ASCI RED machine has a fast clock accessiable through dclock()                                                              
    Dec Alpha has a very fast system clock accessible through getclock()                                                       
   Power1,2,3,PC machines have a fast clock read_real_time()