From: Jim Ursetto <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] Re: sqlite3 egg patches for chicken experimental branch Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:16:21 -0600
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 21:05, Thomas Chust <[email protected]> wrote: >> the patch replacing noop by void is fine, of course. Concerning the >> change of thread-sleep!/ms I have the same doubts as you: It should >> really be possible to sleep less than a second waiting for database >> locks, so the computation inside thread-sleep!/ms would have to be >> changed to return a floating point number. > > I am wondering why milliseconds->time is deprecated in the first > place. The internal #<time> object stores times in milliseconds > itself, so to simulate milliseconds->time, we have to do a floating > point division by 1000 just to have Chicken multiply it back by 1000. > What is the justification for that? Do you see this as a performance problem? Somehow, the milliseconds operations appear to be redundant, since seconds is the more natural (to me) time-unit. Probably this was a mistake. cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
