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The monotonic origin bound measures the clock, not the machine

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Joseph Ferano 2026-09-20 11:53:37 +07:00
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(println (>= t2 t1))) (println (>= t2 t1)))
;; And the origin is the first read rather than boot, so the first readings ;; And the origin is the first read rather than boot, so the first readings
;; a program takes are small. Bounded rather than pinned: the number is ;; a program takes are small. Bounded rather than pinned, and the bound is
;; whatever this process spent between the calls above and this one, which ;; deliberately loose: what separates this clock from a boot-relative one is
;; is not a second on any machine that can run the suite at all. ;; hours, so a minute proves it and a second only proved it on hardware. The
(println (< (monotonic-ns) ns-per-second)) ;; tighter bound was a reading after all — memcheck runs this program on a
;; synthetic CPU tens of times slower than the metal, the second genuinely
;; elapsed, and the line went false under a tool that has nothing to say
;; about clocks. A minute is past anything a simulator adds and still short
;; of the smallest thing the assertion is meant to catch.
(println (< (monotonic-ns) (* 60 ns-per-second)))
;; The f64 face is the i64 one divided, and what is checked is that the two ;; The f64 face is the i64 one divided, and what is checked is that the two
;; describe the same instant: a later reading in seconds is at or past an ;; describe the same instant: a later reading in seconds is at or past an