From: Koichi Sasada Date: 2018-08-28T10:59:26+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:88701] Re: [Ruby trunk Misc#15014] thread.c: use rb_hrtime_scalar for high-resolution time operations On 2018/08/27 18:17, Eric Wong wrote: >>> A joke; at least as far as we know it is a joke :> >> >> I'm not sure why uint64_t doesn't solve time machine problem and uint128_t >> solves it. Any RFC arguing it? (time machines should not leap 1.0790283e+22 >> years)? > > It delays the onset of the problem. 585 years well within the > known range of human history; but 1.0790283e+22 years is much > farther away (probably beyond lifespan of the universe). We need to a time machine to confirm it :p (but ruby doesn't support it... any other language runtime support it? :p) >> Beside joking, I misunderstand that some systems can change the machine time >> (time machine may means it) which affect monotonic time, and I could not >> understand why uint128 can solve such system issue. -- // SASADA Koichi at atdot dot net Unsubscribe: