From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: larsi@gnus.org, v.pupillo@gmail.com, 55163@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55163: 29.0.50; master 4a1f69ebca (TICKS . HZ) for current-time broke lsp-mode
Date: Tue, 03 May 2022 05:32:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sfpr4a7s.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <03ad7708-7e43-245a-1198-ce35e335e84f@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 2 May 2022 16:17:38 -0700)
> Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 16:17:38 -0700
> Cc: 55163@debbugs.gnu.org, v.pupillo@gmail.com, larsi@gnus.org
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
>
> >>> What we have established is that Emacs apps need to be able to measure
> >>> time intervals, not that they need a monotonic clock. Functions for
> >>> measuring time intervals can be built on functions that return
> >>> monotonic clock time, but they can also be built on other bases that
> >>> have very little with actual time stamps.
> >> What other bases would these be? Monotonic clocks are relatively
> >> portable; other methods that come to mind are not.
> > As long as such a method exists on a platform, that platform can make
> > do without high-resolution wallclock time.
>
> Sorry, I'm still lost. What methods would these be?
For example, measuring time intervals by looking at CPU counters.
> Are they methods that one can already use in portable Elisp code?
No, because we were talking about APIs that are not yet available in
Emacs.
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-28 10:53 bug#55163: 29.0.50; master 4a1f69ebca (TICKS . HZ) for current-time broke lsp-mode Vincenzo Pupillo
2022-04-28 12:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-28 13:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-28 20:15 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-28 20:42 ` Vincenzo Pupillo
2022-04-28 21:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-28 21:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-29 9:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-29 10:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-29 10:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-29 11:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-29 19:38 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-29 19:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-29 22:45 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-30 5:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-30 9:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-30 10:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-30 20:51 ` Paul Eggert
2022-05-01 5:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-01 15:00 ` Paul Eggert
2022-05-01 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-01 16:17 ` Paul Eggert
2022-05-01 16:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 17:27 ` Paul Eggert
2022-05-02 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-02 23:17 ` Paul Eggert
2022-05-03 2:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-05-03 2:52 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-30 1:44 ` Paul Eggert
2022-04-30 5:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-30 11:21 ` Vincenzo Pupillo
2022-04-30 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-30 12:32 ` Vincenzo Pupillo
2022-04-30 12:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-30 13:22 ` Vincenzo Pupillo
2022-04-30 9:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-30 21:03 ` Paul Eggert
2022-05-01 5:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-01 15:08 ` Paul Eggert
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