[dev-context] Time primitives
Taco Hoekwater
taco at elvenkind.com
Mon May 9 15:30:04 CEST 2005
Hi Hans,
Would new (pdf)etex primitives like these help benchmarking context?
Two static read-only values that amend the normal TeX ones like
\time and \year, giving the passed seconds since 1 jan 1970 at
start-of-run:
\epochseconds % integer part
\microseconds % fractional part (between and 0-1000000)
And one dynamic one:
\microinterval % interval since start-of-run, in microseconds
The static seconds and microseconds have be split in two because the
multiplication of two C long-s cannot fit in one \count register.
I need the initialization values only so that I can create
meaningful intervals, but I thought it might be useful to have
them available.
If you prefer something more or different, let me know.
Taco
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