Manlio Perillo wrote:
Hi.
Just out of curiosity, but why Haskell 98 System.CPUTime library module
uses picoseconds instead of, say, nanoseconds?
At least on POSIX systems, picoseconds precision is *never* specified.
I have not idea. But at a guess, I would say that 1 ns is not such a small time
interval anymore. The CPU speeds are about 3 GHz, so 0.3 ns per CPU clock.
Even the RAM clock in a laptop (e.g. Apple's 17" Mac Pro) is 1066 MHz, so the
internal there is just under 1 ns.
Whoever picked picoseconds has made it possible to talk about a single clock
interval for hardware like this.
--
Chris
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