From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 26 15:47:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE05D37B401 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:47:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 1605614C40; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 00:47:26 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Bakul Shah Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Peter Wemm , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. References: <200110262229.SAA07928@marlborough.cnchost.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 27 Oct 2001 00:47:25 +0200 In-Reply-To: <200110262229.SAA07928@marlborough.cnchost.com> Message-ID: Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 Bakul Shah writes: > > The problem is that people tend to think of time as integers > > instead of a floating point value. > Precisely! So what I am suggesting is to count in the > smallest unit that makes sense on a machine. Associate the > number of zoptoseconds (or whatever) per tick and add that to > your 96 bit kernel time. You are all morons. It is painfully obvious we cannot make do with anything less than flobbosecond resolution, or we will seriously lose when we transition to 7-dimensional computation lattices and find that quadron fluctuations in the quantum phase-shift matrix is affecting make(1)s ability to correctly determine whether Richard Stallman is, in fact, Jesus reincarnate. Are we done with the bikeshed yet? Let's have those 64-bit time_ts now, please, and a coffee to go. Black, please, with two lumps. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message