From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 26 9:23: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6246537B41A for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:22:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9QGMNM02955; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:22:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Julian Elischer Cc: Peter Wemm , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:34:33 PDT." Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 18:22:23 +0200 Message-ID: <2953.1004113343@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Ju lian Elischer writes: >ok, so take 2 bits. >that leaves you with 30 bits (1 nanosecond) resolution... >or to be compatible... take it from the top 2 bits.. >that leaves us with 400 years either way.. enough I'd say.. >for file access times.. I happen to think that such micro-optimizations turn out to be much more trouble than they are worth. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message