From: sdl@MITRE-BEDFORD.ARPA (Litvintchouk)
Subject: Required values of DURATION'SMALL
Date: Mon, 23-Jun-86 21:13:31 EDT [thread overview]
Date: Mon Jun 23 21:13:31 1986
Message-ID: <8606240113.AA01489@mitre-bedford.ARPA> (raw)
The Ada LRM (section 9.6) states, "...the smallest representable
duration, DURATION'SMALL must not be greater than twenty milliseconds
(whenever possible, a value not greater than fifty microseconds should
be chosen)."
What is the rationale behind the choice of values like "twenty
milliseconds" and "fifty microseconds"? Was there a real reason for
these restrictions, or were the values just "picked out of the air" as
seeming reasonable?
Steven Litvintchouk
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