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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | bug#44674: 28.0.50; Adding current-cpu-time for performance tests |
Date: | Mon, 16 Nov 2020 13:41:13 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> What do you mean by "origin" and by "calling 'system'"? > Quoting https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/: > > The clock() function shall return the implementation's best > approximation to the processor time used by the process > since the beginning of an implementation-defined era > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > related only to the process invocation. > > How do you write portable Lisp code that returns consistent results > based on such shaky foundations? You only consider differences between measurements. Stefan
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