antirez/redis — pull request #843 by ldm5180 (2012-12-21 22:24:29+00:00)
Title: Use clock_gettime() instead of gettimeofday() on FreeBSD.

On FreeBSD calling gettimeofday() causes all the cores on a multicore
system to be synchronized. On a heavily loaded system with a
significantly CPU bound application this can cause a 40% overall
system degradation.

A better option is to use clock_gettime() and pass in the
CLOCK_REALTIME_FAST clock as the clock to use. This achieves the
same behavior as gettimeofday() on Linux.