Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Hi Hans,
Would new (pdf)etex primitives like these help benchmarking context?
Two static read-only values that amend the normal TeX ones like \time and \year, giving the passed seconds since 1 jan 1970 at start-of-run:
\epochseconds % integer part \microseconds % fractional part (between and 0-1000000)
And one dynamic one:
\microinterval % interval since start-of-run, in microseconds
The static seconds and microseconds have be split in two because the multiplication of two C long-s cannot fit in one \count register.
I need the initialization values only so that I can create meaningful intervals, but I thought it might be useful to have them available.
nice
If you prefer something more or different, let me know.
maybe something \basicloop <counter> {token list} (kind of \testfeature in context) so that one does not have interference of loop macros; i assume that a native loop has neglectable consequences (this reminde me that we had some discussion about reals i.e. dimenless dimens and that you had a brain wave about that) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------