Re: Block-I/O in Haskell

On 2004-10-14 at 21:35+0200 Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:

Jon Fairbairn writes:

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I haven't been following this discussion closely, but if the resolution of the timer were nanoseconds, wouldn't you run into trouble with Double for periods longer than about four months?

If you are going to wait four months, you don't care about nanoseconds.

No? Are you sure? To wait forty months expecting two things to happen ten nanoseconds apart and then have them happen simultaneously would be annoying. Right now, a nanosecond doesn't amount to a long time on a CPU, but I'm not willing to bet that it'll stay that way forever. -- Jón Fairbairn Jon.Fairbairn@cl.cam.ac.uk