"Do we really need 128-bit time? You must be planning to live forever."
— Avi Kivity in a November 7'th, 2007 message to the Linux Kernel mailing list.
u64 for nanoseconds, when there's a seconds field? You only need 30 bits for nanoseconds if you have seconds...
Wow.
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Is a nanosecond field with a value of a billion or more valid anyway? I can't imagine that requiring programmers to compute the actual seconds with "sec + nsec/1000000000" was in any form a good idea.
1 billion is just shy of 2^30.
I am planning to live forever
in hell of course ;)
The daemons made me do it
Dang!
u64 for nanoseconds, when there's a seconds field? You only need 30 bits for nanoseconds if you have seconds...
Wow.
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Is a nanosecond field with a
Is a nanosecond field with a value of a billion or more valid anyway? I can't imagine that requiring programmers to compute the actual seconds with "sec + nsec/1000000000" was in any form a good idea.
That was my point.
1 billion is just shy of 2^30.
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Program Intellivision and play Space Patrol!
I am planning to live
I am planning to live forever
yeah you live forever, but ....
in hell of course ;)
The daemons made me do it
The daemons made me do it