Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:04:12 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a proposed callout API Message-ID: <15431.1163581452@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:40:25 %2B1100." <20061115084025.GA914@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
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In message <20061115084025.GA914@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>, Peter Jeremy writes: >On Mon, 2006-Nov-13 21:38:21 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >>The other thing is that covering the entire range from hour long >>callouts to nanosecond callouts would require a 64 bit value or >>a tricky pseudo-FP encoding. By splitting them in two classes, >>I can use two different 31 bit encodings separated by the top bit. > >This sounds like a pseudo-FP encoding with a very small exponent and a >relatively large mantissa :-) Well, yes... :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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