Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:35:26 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Message-ID: <20011026123526.F15052@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <3686.1004114708@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:45:08PM %2B0200 References: <20011026114249.E15052@elvis.mu.org> <3686.1004114708@critter.freebsd.dk>
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* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> [011026 11:45] wrote:
> In message <20011026114249.E15052@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes:
>
> >> And have you considered that there may be other and stronger
> >> requirements than make(1) and that multi-cpu, multi-threaded systems
> >> may push the envelope ?
> >>
> >> Solving the problem means going for a timestamp which can resolve
> >> any conceiveable CPU frequencies for all relevant future.
> >
> >I guess I should have more in depth knowledge of these systems by
> >now, but what's wrong with having the in-core being a full
> >64/128/whatever bits while the on disk itself doesn't?
>
> Because applications in core write files on disk ? :-)
Excuse me for being daft, but isn't some of the resolution currently
in the on-disk portion more than the time it takes to write and
re-read the data from most media? Are you concerned with faster
media? Perhaps MFS?
> I'm merely advocating solving the problem and not hacking around it.
I think that means we wait for Kirk's new layout.
--
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
http://www.morons.org/rants/gpl-harmful.php3
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