Re: RFC: Higher resolution time values

[Larry Wall]

Graham Barr writes:
: On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:50:10AM -0400, Sam Tregar wrote:
: > On 2 Aug 2000, Gisle Aas wrote:
: > 
: > > =head1 PERL5 PORTABILITY
: > > 
: > > Calls to time() could be transformed to int(time()) when converting
: > > perl5 programs to perl6.
: > 
: > Unless there's a:
: > 
: >    use HiRes::Time qw(time);
: > 
: > in effect!
: 
: Well theres a difference there when you look at the op tree. That is a call
: to a sub, whereas otherwise it is a op.

Theoretically, we'd like to make subs run as fast as ops.

Larry