Re: microseconds ought to be enough for anybody

From: Ryan Lortie <desrt desrt ca>
To: Havoc Pennington <hp pobox com>
Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: microseconds ought to be enough for anybody
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:54:20 -0400

On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 14:21 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Well there's already G_USEC_PER_SEC but I guess it's saving typing of
> more zeroes.

Reading 1000 is very easy.  With 1000000 or 1000000000, you usually have
to stop and count the number of zeros (see also: why 'thousands
separators' exist).

Cheers

References:
- microseconds ought to be enough for anybody
  - From: Ryan Lortie
- Re: microseconds ought to be enough for anybody
  - From: Havoc Pennington
- Re: microseconds ought to be enough for anybody
  - From: Peter Clifton
- Re: microseconds ought to be enough for anybody
  - From: Havoc Pennington

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