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From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Linking against Plan9 own routines with APE
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2021 12:49:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E4E88826875D57C74B0150B89E012AA9@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YWhcSHlfXqoXJlDG@polynum.com>

Quoth tlaronde@polynum.com:
> For kerTeX, I need to access a time reference with better than the
> second.
> 
> The answer is nsec(2).
> 

For posix: we already have gettimeofday(),
which has microsecond resolution.

But also, I'd commit a patch that adds
clock_gettime: it's standardized, widely
used, relatively simple to implement, and
makes porting other code easier.

(monotonicity aside -- that's separate.)


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-14 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-14 16:35 tlaronde
2021-10-14 16:42 ` Sigrid Solveig Haflínudóttir
2021-10-14 16:46   ` Conor Williams
2021-10-14 16:49   ` tlaronde
2021-10-14 16:49 ` ori [this message]
2021-10-14 17:13   ` tlaronde

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