[Openmcl-devel] CCL 1.9 release candidate available

[Alexander Repenning]

On Feb 6, 2013, at 1:48 PM, R. Matthew Emerson wrote:

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> On Feb 6, 2013, at 3:36 PM, Alexander Repenning <alexander.repenning at Colorado.EDU> wrote:
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>> from the release notes:
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>>> access to high-resolution clock
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>>> CCL:CURRENT-TIME-IN-NANOSECONDS returns the number of elapsed nanoseconds since some arbitrary point in time (likely system boot.)
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>> This sounds very useful. What is the approximate resolution of this function on Windows, i.e., what kind of Windows timer function is this based on?
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> Pressing M-. on current-time-in-nanoseconds leads me to its definition in ccl:lib;time.lisp.  On Windows, that function uses #_GetSystemTimeAsFileTime.


I was afraid of that because on most Windows systems, certainly XP, that would suggest a 15ms resolution which is rather disappointing. 

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