From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pre-load time-date.el Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:33:09 -0700 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <54401D75.70101@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83ppds2c7l.fsf@gnu.org> <83iojj3lhc.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1413488054 1740 80.91.229.3 (16 Oct 2014 19:34:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 19:34:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Glenn Morris Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 16 21:34:07 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XeqoH-0003bJ-HR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 21:34:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52321 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XeqoH-0000eX-55 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:34:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54005) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xeqnw-0000cL-7F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:33:51 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xeqno-0002ex-O5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:33:44 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:35136) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xeqng-0002cJ-Oe; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:33:28 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29AB6A60012; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:33:21 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id roliSC+a5dl3; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:33:12 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 73CF2A60036; Thu, 16 Oct 2014 12:33:12 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.1.1 In-Reply-To: <83iojj3lhc.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:175484 Archived-At: On 10/16/2014 11:42 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > it's seconds-to-time, which is called by timer-set-idle-time, > which in turn is called by run-with-idle-timer. > It strikes me that low-level time primitives should accept counts of seconds (either integers, or floats) in addition to the funky (HIGH LOW USEC PSEC) format that they currently accept.This would be cheap to add at the low level, and would remove the need for many calls to seconds-to-time, including the abovementioned one, and would mean Emacs wouldn't need to preload time-date.el. Also, doing the conversion in C would lessen the amount of timing error introduced by the conversion itself.