Mention an idea for wall clock sync in Hardware_Timer

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/timer/cpu_counter/tm_hard.h b/src/timer/cpu_counter/tm_hard.h
index ec5268085..03f508575 100644
--- a/src/timer/cpu_counter/tm_hard.h
+++ b/src/timer/cpu_counter/tm_hard.h
@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ namespace Botan {
 class BOTAN_DLL Hardware_Timer : public Timer
    {
    public:
+      /*
+      @todo: Add sync(Timer& wall_clock, bool milliseconds) which busy
+      loops using wall_clock and tries to guess the tick rate of the
+      hardware counter, allowing it to be used for benchmarks, etc
+      */
+
       std::string name() const { return "Hardware Timer"; }
       u64bit clock() const;
    };