Re: [Chicken-users] R7RS: (current-jiffy) and (jiffies-per-second)

2014-03-10 Thread Alex Shinn
On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 7:51 PM, Daniel Carrera dcarr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I hope nobody minds an R7RS question. This list seems to have people knowledgeable of R7RS. It seems weird that R7RS would specify the functions: There's also scheme-repo...@scheme-reports.org but I doubt people

Re: [Chicken-users] R7RS: (current-jiffy) and (jiffies-per-second)

2014-03-10 Thread John Cowan
Alex Shinn scripsit: current-jiffy could always return fixnums. Alas, only if you are in the sweet spot of: 1) programs don't run for too long 2) fixnums are sufficiently large 3) jiffies aren't too precise On a 32-bit system with microsecond resolution (which does not necessarily mean

[Chicken-users] R7RS: (current-jiffy) and (jiffies-per-second)

2014-03-09 Thread Daniel Carrera
Hello, I hope nobody minds an R7RS question. This list seems to have people knowledgeable of R7RS. It seems weird that R7RS would specify the functions: (current-jiffy) -- An exact integer representing the number of jiffies (arbitrary unit of time) since some arbitrary epoch.