Re: [j-devel] Re: lisp time macro

[Peter G. <pe...@ar...>]

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 at 12:29:11 -0400, Sam Steingold wrote:
> <http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/lang/System.html#nanoTime()>:
> "his method can only be used to measure elapsed time and is not related
> to any other notion of system or wall-clock time"

Yeah, I saw that. In fact, that was the sentence that seemed vague to
me.

A bit of googling has convinced me that it's probably just a nanosecond-
precision way of measuring overall elapsed time from point A to point
B, and not a way of measuring execution time for the current thread
between point A and point B. If that's true, it won't really help for
TIME.

But I could be wrong; I haven't done any testing.

-Peter