[Ns-bugs] [Bug 2] Time class a full-blown arithmetic object

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mathieu.lacage at sophia.inria.fr changed:

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------- Comment #1 from mathieu.lacage at sophia.inria.fr  2006-10-23 04:32 -------
I would like to add one extra comments:
It might be really needed to go down that route because the current way of
allowing the user to convert to various time units is sort of broken. Part of
the deal when I designed the current Time getters was that the user would see
no change in simulation behavior if we increased the internal accuracy of the
event scheduler. However; this does not work in practice: if the code was
designed to say: I want to schedule an event in 2 microseconds and if he used
Schedule (Now + 2) to do this, his code might not be notified in 2 microseconds
but in 1+epsilon microseconds due to the way time conversions are done. So, I
think that the current way of working is bad in certain cases (which ought not
to exist I should point out)

So, I guess that the priority of this item has just increased in my work queue.


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