Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:54:08 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> Cc: Davide Italiano <davide@freebsd.org>, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, phk@onelab2.iet.unipi.it, freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: API explosion (Re: [RFC/RFT] calloutng) Message-ID: <14604.1355910848@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <1355873265.1198.183.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> References: <50CF88B9.6040004@FreeBSD.org> <20121218173643.GA94266@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <50D0B00D.8090002@FreeBSD.org> <50D0E42B.6030605@FreeBSD.org> <20121218225823.GA96962@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <1355873265.1198.183.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
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-------- In message <1355873265.1198.183.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>, Ian Lepore writes : >On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 23:58 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >I'm not so sure about the 2^k precision. You speak of seconds, but I >would be worrying about sub-second precision in my work. It is a bad idea, and it is physically pointless, given the stabilities of the timebases available for computers in general. Please just take my word as a time-nut, and use a 32.32 binary format in seconds (see previous email) and be done with it. -- 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.
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