Re: using 2 clocks in a design

Gerald W. Lester wrote:
But what if neither -milliseconds or -microseconds are specified? 

You get some random high-resolution thing that we don't (officially)
define. :-) On Unix, this is actually the return value from times(2),
and on Windows it's currently the same as [clock microseconds]. No
promises that these will remain that way though, of course.

Donal.
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