Le Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 03:12:11PM -0400, [email protected] a écrit :
> Quoth [email protected]:
> > Hello,
> >
> > LaTeX now requires primitives (extensions) that are not provided by TeX
> > nor e-TeX.
> >
> > I have hence developed a new engine: Prote, that adds the required
> > extensions and that will be the main target for the future enhancements.
> >
> > (The main purpose is to have one and only one engine, TeX compatible,
> > e-TeX compatible and LaTeX compatible, with only libc requirements and
> > BSD like licence, in order to set TeX as the OSes typographical engine.)
> >
> > Amongst the extensions I had to add, there are two bits that go beyond
> > ISO C libc. One is a way to get elapsed time and unfortunately clock(3)
> > is not the answer. I then used POSIX.1:clock_gettime(2) with CLOCK_MONOTONIC
> > or CLOCK_REALTIME if the previous is not defined.
> >
> > But is clock_gettime(2) available in APE in any instance of Plan9 or is
> > there a routine achieving the same purpose?
> >
>
> Currently, no. It can be added without too much
> trouble, though we'd need to create /dev/monotime
> to get properly monotonic time.
Thanks for the answer;
For the time being, I will then simply make the "timer" with a
granularity of 1 second only simply diffing times on plan9.
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