Agreed - I'll try and get this done tonight. BTW, I don't have a windows or mac machine for testing factor on so I'll take a stab at what I think should work on these platforms and then hopefully somebody else cat check it?
Cheers, Phil Daniel Ehrenberg wrote: > I'm wondering, is it possible to do this without adding a primitive, > just using the FFI as in your example? You could use hooks for proper > cross-platform behavior. > > Dan > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:59 AM, Phil Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Factor List, >> >> I've been doing some code profiling that requires a microsecond timer >> (measuring the accumulated time spent in words that take less than a >> millisecond for each invocation). To handle this on my 32bit linux box I >> used the following: >> >> FUNCTION: int gettimeofday ( void* TP, void* TZP ) ; >> >> : micros ( -- n ) >> 8 <byte-array> dup f gettimeofday drop 2 c-ulong-array> first2 >> [ 1000000 * ] dip + ; >> >> ...which obviously isn't portable. Looking at the source in os_unix.c >> and os_windows*.c it looks like the timers on all the platforms are of >> microsecond precision so I was wondering whether there was any objection >> to me putting a 'micros' primitive in the vm? >> >> (Actually I'm guessing that probably I don't know what I'm talking about >> and that there's a good reason why only 'millis' exists in factor) >> >> Cheers, >> >> Phil >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. >> It's the best place to buy or sell services for >> just about anything Open Source. >> http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php >> _______________________________________________ >> Factor-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > Factor-talk mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
