From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: current-time and GMP
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 21:27:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbm9ky7l8.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2pny0daph.fsf@newartisans.com> (John Wiegley's message of "Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:17:30 -0700")
> SM> - keep it as is
> Just to play devil's advocate: Does it need to change?
It's definitely not high priority.
> Is there any Emacs Lisp code you think of that whose utility could
> benefit from greater precision than what we have now?
The time-manipulation code is just pretty ugly because of the need to
manipulate those 3-4 element list, basically performing bignum-style
operations by hand (see (F)time_add, (F)time_substract, .... in
editfns.c).
Admittedly, it'll probably take a while before we move to something else
than picoseconds as to basis, so I don't think it's a serious
maintenance hassle. It's just that the code could be more elegant.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-30 1:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-29 2:30 current-time and GMP Stefan Monnier
2018-08-29 9:07 ` Paul Eggert
2018-08-29 19:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-08-29 21:10 ` Helmut Eller
2018-10-02 1:09 ` Paul Eggert
2018-10-22 15:07 ` Joseph Mingrone
2018-10-22 15:15 ` Kaushal Modi
2018-10-22 15:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-22 15:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-22 15:57 ` Kaushal Modi
2018-10-22 16:10 ` Kaushal Modi
2018-10-22 16:24 ` Joseph Mingrone
2018-10-22 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-22 19:38 ` Joseph Mingrone
2018-10-22 18:31 ` Paul Eggert
2018-10-22 19:39 ` Joseph Mingrone
2018-08-29 23:17 ` John Wiegley
2018-08-30 1:27 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-08-30 2:42 ` T.V Raman
2018-08-30 5:51 ` John Wiegley
2018-08-30 5:51 ` John Wiegley
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