On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 05:31:29PM -0700, Aaron Bannert wrote: > On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 12:13:54AM -0000, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: > > jerenkrantz 2002/07/11 17:13:54 > > > > Modified: . STATUS > > Log: > > IMHO, apr_time_t should be treated as an opaque value. The library > > should be > > free to change the implementation details whenever it wants. > > There are two *huge* things wrong with this: > > 1) apr_time_t has always been a scalar > 2) making apr_time_t an opaque type would make it so horribly inefficient > that we might as well leave it as sorta-slow decimal usecs.
Not quite opaque in that you can still compute deltas via a subtraction, but that to understand the quantities, you must place it through a function/macro. Brian has already converted httpd to this model. -- justin
