Re: threading / timers / etc

[Pavel Holejsovsky <pavel holejsovsky gmail com>]

On 10/23/2010 4:46 PM, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> I briefly considered having a per-process epoch whereby the first time
> you request the monotonic time, that becomes "time zero".  After rolling
> it over in my head a few times, I like it less and less.

Just out of curiosity; would you mind trying to specify reasons why you 
don't like it?  Because the only complication I can see with this 
solution is that the clock is not monotonic across process borders 
(although it is a bit hard for me right now to invent situation where 
this would matter).

Thanks,
Pavel