> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 05:36:10PM +0200, felix.winkelm...@bevuta.com wrote: > > > One thing I'm concerned about is that there's current-milliseconds, which > > > returns the milliseconds since startup, while we'd have current-seconds > > > and current-microseconds which return the (micro)seconds since the Epoch. > > > > > > > Microseconds since epoch? Are you sure about this? > > What else would the new current-microseconds return?
Since startup, or since some undefined point of time. I see no sense in using an absolute basetime, as such a timing command will in nearly all use cases be used for relative timing. One should also attempt to reduce the range to avoid bignum allocation, I think. felix
