On Tue 16 Oct 2007 at 08:40AM, Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> >My original thought was to provide -u (microsecond) and -n
> >(nanosecond) options to allow users to specify the resolution. For
> >these I would have left the default resolution at milliseconds for
> >backwards-compatibility. That was the closest I came to the -h/-k
> >equivalent.
> >
> >But I think you're actually asking for output like this:
> >
> Uh, not really.
>
> I would be equally happy with your original thought about using "-u"
> and "-n".
I'll claim responsibility for this: Chad originally proposed -u and -n,
but my comment was that this creates its own usability problem: the user
must now *discover* the fact that ptime has greater resolution, rather
than just supplying the user the higher precision result by default.
As an aside, there's no difference in the way we gather the data-- only
in the way it gets printed, so literally this is an argument over
printf formatting :(
-dp
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