Re: RFC: Higher resolution time values

[Dan Sugalski]

At 09:34 PM 8/5/00 +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >At 10:55 AM 8/2/00 +0200, Gisle Aas wrote:
> >>All functions that return time values (seconds since epoch) should use
> >>floating point numbers to return as much precision as the platform
> >>supports.  All functions that take time values as arguments should
> >>work for fractional seconds if the platform supports it.
> >
> >Floats have resolution issues that exacerbate sub-second resolution issues.
>
>As an engineer I would really like to know when you are going to
>run out of precision in double - that is forty something bits of mantissa.
>That is more precision than you have in the real world.

It's not precision, it's resolution. What do you do if your timers return 
values in 1/10ths of a second?

                                        Dan

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