Re: [Factor-talk] System time vs monotonic counters

2009-11-21 Thread Jon Harper
Hi, I just bootstrapped the latest factor version and put my computer to sleep in the middle of it for about 20 minutes. The bootstrapping times were : Bootstrap completed in 8 minutes and 1 seconds. -- didn't sleep Bootstrap completed in 8 minutes and 28 seconds. -- slept 20 min this is on linu

[Factor-talk] System time vs monotonic counters

2009-11-18 Thread Doug Coleman
Hi, I moved the monotonic counter code to the VM and adapted the threads vocabulary to use it. The reason for moving to the VM is so that threads works with the non-optimizing compiler. Previously, we had a VM primitive 'micros' and a utility word 'millis', which returned system time, and the