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32 .Nd convert milliseconds to system clock ticks
39 can be used to convert time in milliseconds to system clock ticks, as used
42 facility, in an integer-overflow safe way.
44 This function is implemented as a define in the
45 .Em \*[Lt]sys/param.h\*[Gt]
47 Individual ports can have a processor-specific, more efficient
48 version implemented in their
49 .Em \*[Lt]machine/param.h\*[Gt]
52 The return value is the number of clock ticks for the specified value.
56 The machine-independent
58 function does not make use of expensive 64-bit integer arithmetic, so
59 the result will be rounded down to one second if the parameter is larger
60 than 131072 milliseconds.