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Updating callout_reset
- Subject: Updating callout_reset
- From: silby at silby.com (Mike Silbersack)
- Date: Tue Feb 3 02:10:22 2004
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Bruce Evans wrote:
> Many callers don't worry much about efficiency and do calculations like
> (hz / 10) to get the timeout. This is still more efficient than the
> 64-bit divisions and other complications needed to handle general
> conversions of times to timeouts. (Look at tvtohz(). Note that the
> complications in it have very little to do with struct timeval not
> being a scalar type. They are to handle representation problems.)
>
> Bruce
I've thought more about this, and although I could debate some points,
you've convinced me that changing the interface without changing the
implementation is totally pointless. So, if I ever get around to
implementation changes, then I'll come back and we can rediscuss some
of these issues.
Mike "Silby" Silbersack
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