[ruby-core:88701] Re: [Ruby trunk Misc#15014] thread.c: use rb_hrtime_scalar for high-resolution time operations

From: Koichi Sasada <ko1@...>
Date: 2018-08-28 01:59:26 UTC
List: ruby-core #88701
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

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