RFC: Time Library 0.2

[Tony Finch]

On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Sebastian Sylvan wrote:
>
> Well, on my system, System.Time has a resolution of 16ms, which is terrible.
>
> So we need a function that uses the various high performance counters
> that each architecture exposes to get high-precison results.

Those counters are not synchronized to civil time. You can't have both
high resolution and absolute precision.

Tony.
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