It made more sense to track times since an origin, esp when you might use several timers in case you use multiple threads.
> Le 30 déc. 2016 à 13:37, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > On 29 December 2016 at 11:25, Jonathan Christensen wrote: > | Hi Kaspar and Dirk, > | > | It is indeed cumulative. Previously (presumably when that gallery page was > | written) it was not cumulative, but Romain Francois changed the behavior of > the > | step() function several years ago, in this commit: > https://github.com/RcppCore/ > | Rcpp/commit/e295b2b178de55291e63705966368404bb0ce5e1. > > Nice catch. > > | There is no indication or reasoning about changing the behavior, so it may > be > | that making it cumulative was unintentional. > > Let's presume it was intentional to the author of the change -- but as you > rightly point out, it did of course change and reverse previous behaviour. > > We could easily add a toggle to the constructor to get an either/or behaviour. > > Dirk > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Rcpp-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel _______________________________________________ Rcpp-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.r-forge.r-project.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rcpp-devel
