From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 12430@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12430: Glitches caused by addition of psec to timers
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:44:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83392kvhv3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvligcbvdo.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 12430@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 09:18:47 -0400
>
> > I will remember that when I write a hard-realtime application in
> > Emacs Lisp.
>
> Nanoseconds are real. Think about it: if the eldoc timer is always late
> by a nanosecond each time, over your whole lifetime this might add up to
> your wasting a measurable amount of your life waiting unnecessarily.
> Do you really want to die cursing those wasted nanoseconds?
> I didn't think so,
If you studied the various OSes and worked with hard realtime programs
as much as I did, you wouldn't bet your life on the precision of their
timers.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-14 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-13 6:04 bug#12430: Glitches caused by addition of psec to timers Paul Eggert
2012-09-13 12:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-13 16:26 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-13 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-13 18:48 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-13 19:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-13 19:37 ` Paul Eggert
2012-09-13 20:11 ` Glenn Morris
2012-09-14 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-13 21:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-14 6:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-14 13:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-14 13:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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