[Vm-dev] microsecond timing for GC work
John M McIntosh
johnmci at smalltalkconsulting.com
Tue Jan 19 18:24:58 UTC 2010
Well this is using a sqlLong which is signed 64bit, the default choice is sqInt 32bit signed which won't last long.
However I'm think more from a completeness viewpoint there should be a usqlLong anyway.
On 2010-01-19, at 4:02 AM, David T. Lewis wrote:
> I would not worry too much about using a sqLong here. If you report time
> in microseconds since the Posix epoch, you can go nearly 300 centuries
> before overflowing a 64 bit signed integer.
>
> bigLong := (2 raisedTo: 63) - 1.
> biggestMicrosecAsSeconds := bigLong / 1000000.
> secondsPerYear := 365.25 * 24 * 60 * 60.
> maxYears := biggestMicrosecAsSeconds / secondsPerYear.
> lastYear := 1970 + maxYears asInteger ==> 294241
>
> Dave
>
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