Re: Monotonic clock

"Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at tfeb dot org)" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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