Subject: Re: Waving the lambda flag again (was: Constants and DEFCONSTANT) From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no> Date: 1999/04/02 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Message-ID: <3132050414299555@naggum.no> * pvaneynd@mail.inthan.be (Peter Van Eynde) | With "the values" you mean the human readable form of the (day, millisec, | timezone) triplet? no, the individual (day month year) and (second minute hour) triples. | So (year,month,day,hour,minute,second) in a fixnum, right? no. keep trying. :) | Aha. Is it not possible to use the cycle-counter on modern x86's to | check this. You would have to insert get-the-count instructions here and | there, but it gives you a resolution of 1 clock tick. IIRC yes, this is possible, but as far as I can see, Allegro CL does not support this mode of operation. I think it's a little too much to ask, too, but if I can get over the _disgusting_ machine language in the Intel CPU's, I might play with this one day... #:Erik