Re: RFC: Time Library 0.2

On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 11:43:16AM +0100, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:

On 11/2/05, Ashley Yakeley wrote:

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In article <3d96ac180511010738h1e3c5206vba7318e724e3cb48@mail.gmail.com>, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:

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Which is why I requested a separate function which just gives the picosecs since startup (or something).

That's what getCPUTime in System.CPUTime does.

No it isnt'. getCPUTime gives the.. uh.. CPU-time :-)

If all my program does is sleep, waiting for other programs to release some resource, then getCPUTime will return zero.

What I'm requesting is a function which gives the number of wall-clock picos seconds since startup, which could be used for all sorts of real-time simulations etc.

is this true? I always thought that is what getCPUTime was supposed to mean, a reading from the tsc on x86 machines for instance and distinct from the unix notion of 'cputime'. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈