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bug#12430: Glitches caused by addition of psec to timers
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Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
bug#12430: Glitches caused by addition of psec to timers |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Sep 2012 11:48:48 -0700 |
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On 09/13/2012 09:57 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better to leave timers at their previous size of 8, and
> instead allow the usecs element be a floating-point number?
That could introduce off-by-one errors due to rounding
issues.
We could have the usecs element be a list, though.
That is, (USECS PSECS) would stand for the sum of
USECS microseconds and PSECS picoseconds, whereas
a plain USECS would be treated as a microseconds count,
as before.
- bug#12430: Glitches caused by addition of psec to timers, Paul Eggert, 2012/09/13
- bug#12430: Glitches caused by addition of psec to timers, Stefan Monnier, 2012/09/13
- bug#12430: Glitches caused by addition of psec to timers, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/09/14
- bug#12430: Glitches caused by addition of psec to timers, Stefan Monnier, 2012/09/14
- bug#12430: Glitches caused by addition of psec to timers, Eli Zaretskii, 2012/09/14