The end of the beginning is in sight

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> > The successful scalarization of both 64-bit timestamp types has now been
> > achieved.  There's a draft about how this was done in the blog repo: _drafts/
> > cant-we-all-just-get-a-long.ad 
> 
> How much testing has been done?

If you're running any pull from the last three days, you're testing it.

> TESTFRAME would have helped for this sort of change.

TESTFRAME would have helped with a lot of things. If you know of any way
to eliminate the code-path split that sunk the concept, I'm all ears.

> I know about l_fp.  What's the second 64-bit timestamp type?

It's called time64_t.  It used to be vint64.  It's used for calendar
computations.  I think it has identical semantics to l_fp; at some
point I might try unifying the two.
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		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>