Re: Monotonic clock
"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at tfeb dot org)" <[email protected]>
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On 9 Oct 2025, at 13:45, David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com) <[email protected]> wrote: > > (fli:define-foreign-function (get-monotonic-time "mach_continuous_time" :source) > () > :result-type :int64) This should be :uint64. It doesn't matter currently and won't for ... a while. But, one day: if I'm right, in about 7,000 years this will matter. Which just goes to show that none of the computer systems we currently use will be anything like suitable for use in interstellar spaceships. --tim