From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Duration vs. Ada.Real_Time
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 00:13:58 GMT
Date: 2001-01-28T00:13:58+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <94vo82$kst$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3A71E4F6.6D7015AD@acm.org
In article <3A71E4F6.6D7015AD@acm.org>,
Marin David Condic <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org> wrote:
> I would think that a reasonable implementation of Ada for
> realtime systems would want to insure that the precision had
> some relationship to the accuracy of the clock available.
Why do you think that?
The RM contains no encouragement for this thought!
Duration is used for other things besides the delay statement.
And also, programs do various calculations with Duration, if
there is more precision, these calculations are more accurate.
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2001-01-26 15:30 ` Duration vs. Ada.Real_Time Robert Dewar
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2001-01-26 15:33 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-26 20:58 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-26 21:32 ` Ted Dennison
2001-01-27 5:01 ` Keith Thompson
2001-01-27 14:40 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-27 14:34 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-28 0:18 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-29 14:54 ` Ted Dennison
2001-01-29 18:40 ` Marin David Condic
2001-02-08 3:32 ` Buz Cory
2001-02-08 15:34 ` Marin David Condic
2001-02-10 3:08 ` Steve Whalen
2001-01-28 0:13 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
2001-01-29 14:02 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-30 14:33 ` Stephen Leake
2001-01-31 14:55 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-31 16:03 ` Ted Dennison
2001-01-31 19:16 ` Marin David Condic
2001-01-31 20:53 ` Ted Dennison
2001-01-31 21:30 ` tmoran
2001-01-31 21:47 ` Marin David Condic
2001-02-01 14:18 ` Ted Dennison
2001-01-28 19:32 ` Simon Wright
2001-01-31 6:13 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-31 15:07 ` Marin David Condic
2001-02-01 5:43 ` Robert Dewar
2001-01-31 5:51 Christoph Grein
2001-02-01 6:27 ` Simon Wright
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