On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 21:41 +0100, Peter Verswyvelen wrote: > Let's assume you were joking, but just in case you were not... > > > Why this hostile tone? I didn't mean to be offensive.
I'm sorry, I did not intend it to sound hostile. I mis-interpreted the "..." at the end of your sentence. Some people sometimes use this to indicate they're making a joke suggestion. > > Clock speed is variable on all modern CPUs. In low power > states some CPUs can turn off the clock completely. In some > CPUs the clock speed is variable per-core and some can turn > off one core without turning off all cores. Relating clock > ticks to time is a minefield. > > > Yes I know that. I just meant having something that returns a number > of ticks (not real CPU ticks, mea culpa) and the ticks itself. That > would make it unit independent no? I guess so. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
