From owner-freebsd-arch Fri Oct 26 16:11:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (pc-62-31-42-140-hy.blueyonder.co.uk [62.31.42.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E14E37B407 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 16:11:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nik@localhost) by nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f9QMop144984; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 23:50:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from nik) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 23:50:51 +0100 From: Nik Clayton To: Bakul Shah Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Peter Wemm , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit times revisited.. Message-ID: <20011026235051.A44793@clan.nothing-going-on.org> Reply-To: chat@freebsd.org References: <23015.1004077694@critter.freebsd.dk> <200110261748.NAA22627@rodney.cnchost.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200110261748.NAA22627@rodney.cnchost.com>; from bakul@bitblocks.com on Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:48:10AM -0700 Organization: FreeBSD Project 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 --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Redirecting to -chat. On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 10:48:10AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > IMHO there is not much point in using file timestamps of > resolutions less than 1 ns -- that is about 1 foot of travel > at the speed of light. Note that even a ns resolution will > cause problems on a multi-processor system where cpu nodes > are more than a foot or so apart=20 I always liked the fact that one of the Enterprise technical manuals (yeah, you want to make something of it?) noted that the computer core had a little warp field generator in it, so that the processors could communicate at FTL speeds. . . N --=20 FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjvZ6MsACgkQk6gHZCw343Ux8wCfdEDrrVzwP7dIGr/pewPPTLHo NzQAnjBakbBLbIQIECgNDDQchumEeQOW =AhvH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tThc/1wpZn/ma/RB-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message