On Mon 20 Feb 2012 16:52, Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com> writes:

>>> Page 56, section 6.13.4: what is the rationale for having
>>> current-jiffy and jiffies-per-second functions? Why doesn't
>>> current-jiffy return seconds directly?
>>
> I see. Is this an important optimization? Are there implementations
> that have similar functionality (i.e. fixnum-based monotonic timer)?

FWIW, Guile does this.  It's worthwhile in some cases.

Andy
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