Bodo Moeller wrote:
> time() is a POSIX function while gettimeofday() is not.  Also the
> gettimeofday() resolution will not be *that* much better (in fact
> it need not be better at all, time_t need not be an integral type).

It's not required to be better, but it is.  It returns the time down
to the hardware clock's granularity, which is 1/18.2 on a peecee and
much less on a workstation.  Why not use it if it's available?

>> This patch also adds support for mixing in all the output from kstat
>> on Solaris.  That includes a lot of unpredictable system statistics
> 
> I don't think that all this should be in the library.  Use EGD
> instead.

Does EGD work on Windows so RAND_screen can go away?

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