Quote: You Must Be Planning To Live Forever

Submitted by Jeremy
on November 7, 2007 - 6:24pm

"Do we really need 128-bit time? You must be planning to live forever."

I am planning to live

Nony mouse (not verified)
on
November 8, 2007 - 2:24pm

I am planning to live forever

yeah you live forever, but ....

Anonymous (not verified)
on
November 9, 2007 - 2:11pm

in hell of course ;)

The daemons made me do it

Nony mouse (not verified)
on
November 13, 2007 - 9:51pm

The daemons made me do it

Dang!

on
November 8, 2007 - 12:11pm

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

Anonymous (not verified)
on
November 9, 2007 - 4:36pm

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.

on
November 12, 2007 - 9:25pm

1 billion is just shy of 2^30.

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