Change default VFS timestamp precision?

[Adrian Chadd]

On 17 December 2014 at 11:56, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
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> In message <CAJ-Vmokom24Hv1MNNJz2t_bL_o7X+W6FgXaPXT2Q3gSurKefcg at mail.gmail.com>
> , Adrian Chadd writes:
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>>> A millisecond is pushing it, all things considered, it would have to
>>> be an utterly trivial source file for a utterly trivial language.
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>>Why? Computers can do a ridiculous amount of work in a millisecond.
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> Yes, but try it yourself, they mostly don't.
>
> One millisecond is only about a million instructions if you are lucky,
> and in difference from system III, we have put an awful lot of code
> between the stuff you want done and the hardware that does it.
>
> So show me, and I'll believe you.

If I can find the code from a few years ago, sure. A lot of stuff from
my arts degree is sitting on hard disks in Australia, waiting to be
plugged in again.

(Next time I come up against this I'll show you. :)



-adrian