On Mon 20 Feb 2012 16:52, Vitaly Magerya <[email protected]> writes:
>>> Page 56, section 6.13.4: what is the rationale for having >>> current-jiffy and jiffies-per-second functions? Why doesn't >>> current-jiffy return seconds directly? >> > I see. Is this an important optimization? Are there implementations > that have similar functionality (i.e. fixnum-based monotonic timer)? FWIW, Guile does this. It's worthwhile in some cases. Andy -- http://wingolog.org/ _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
