Re: [SUMMARY] time discussion

2002-07-13 Thread Roy T. Fielding
A fine summary of the situation. On Friday, July 12, 2002, at 12:42 PM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: I. We represent all time quantum in the same scale throughout APR. That scale is in microseconds. Which is goodness, because we don't ever have to go back to docs and ask, Does that function

[SUMMARY] time discussion

2002-07-12 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 01:47 PM 7/12/2002, David Reid wrote Can someone simply restate what issue needs fixing. No more hand waving or IRC chats, a simple email explaining the issue and what needs fixed. I will try to do so in a fair and balanced way; I. We represent all time quantum in the same scale throughout APR.

Re: [SUMMARY] time discussion

2002-07-12 Thread Jim Jagielski
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: I hope this is a balanced and fair summary of the discussion to date. Lovely. -- === Jim Jagielski [|] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [|] http://www.jaguNET.com/ A society that will

Re: [SUMMARY] time discussion

2002-07-12 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Now my own comments; I. We represent all time quantum in the same scale throughout APR. That scale is in microseconds. Which is goodness, because we don't ever have to go back to docs and ask, Does that function take seconds or apr time? II. Performance is an issue, we are attempting to

Re: [SUMMARY] time discussion

2002-07-12 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 02:42:22PM -0500, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: And with (III.) above, it just makes good sense to pick new names for this new type, IF we are going to have a contract with the programmers about the representation. We can have compatibility macros until the old symbols