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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: p.stephani2@gmail.com, 44674@debbugs.gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#44674: 28.0.50; Adding current-cpu-time for performance tests
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 19:13:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834klptece.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C161C9BA-8FCE-4845-A67E-6A6A1871CB3D@acm.org> (message from Mattias Engdegård on Mon, 16 Nov 2020 11:11:34 +0100)

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>
> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 11:11:34 +0100
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, 44674@debbugs.gnu.org,
>         Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> 
> > +The return value is a pair (CPU-TICKS . TICKS-PER-SEC).
> 
> Perhaps not ideal to cons in a timing primitive where low overhead is called for.
> What about just returning an integer and have a different way to get at TICKS-PER-SEC?

Why not just return a float in seconds instead?  Do we envision any
application that could be interested in (non-portable) ticks?

> Ideally the returned value should be a fixnum to minimise overhead, but it may restrict the range on 32-bit platforms.

If it must be a fixnum, then it will need to be in nanoseconds, which
would limit its applicability for measuring long intervals.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-16 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-16  1:07 bug#44674: 28.0.50; Adding current-cpu-time for performance tests Stefan Monnier
2020-11-16  7:13 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-11-16  7:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-16  8:18   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-16 11:46     ` Philipp Stephani
2020-11-16 17:17       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-16 18:31         ` Philipp Stephani
2020-11-16 19:12           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-16 22:09           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-16 10:11 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-11-16 10:40   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-16 10:48     ` Philipp Stephani
2020-11-16 10:53     ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-11-16 17:15       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-16 15:27   ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-16 16:14     ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-11-16 17:28     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-16 17:38       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-16 17:59         ` Andreas Schwab
2020-11-16 18:27           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-16 18:41         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-16 19:22           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-16 18:32       ` Philipp Stephani
2020-11-16 19:17         ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-16 20:10         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-16 18:41       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-16 18:39     ` Philipp Stephani
2020-11-16 19:07       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-11-16 17:13   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-11-16 19:15     ` Mattias Engdegård
2022-04-26 13:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-26 15:13   ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-04-27 13:09     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-27 17:14       ` Stefan Monnier via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-04-27 17:20         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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