On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 07:27:04PM -0700, Brian Pane wrote:
> You're thinking of timeval; time_t is just a long int containing
> seconds since the start of the epoch.

Yes, thanks. :)

> The reason we don't use a struct (timeval or any variant thereof)
> is that doing addition and subtraction on the struct is much slower,
> more complicated, and (if people try to do their own match on the
> struct directly) more error-prone than doing the same ops on a
> scalar.

How exactly is the subtraction slower?I'm not at all sure what you
mean by people matching on the struct directly...

-aaron

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