From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 26 10:35:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [216.33.66.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 269E737B405 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:35:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 0081481D09; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:35:26 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 12:35:26 -0500 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Julian Elischer , Terry Lambert , Peter Wemm , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Message-ID: <20011026123526.F15052@elvis.mu.org> References: <20011026114249.E15052@elvis.mu.org> <3686.1004114708@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3686.1004114708@critter.freebsd.dk>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 06:45:08PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Poul-Henning Kamp [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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message