[Ns-developers] Internal Time Keeping Question

[Hagen Paul Pfeifer]

As nobody is in chat I redirect the question/assumption/ideas to the
maillinglist.

Currently there are two distinct time implementation one with 64bit and one
128 bit high precision (src/simulator/high-precision-128.cc, libcairo
based).  I an not sure at the moment if it is necessary to synchronize the
128bit values (m_slowValue) or use the faster counterpart?

My current idea is to add a bitfield in the ParaPacket Header ("128bit
mode") to signal the precision and transmit the 128bit or in the other case
a 64 bit width value. This field becomes the linchpin of the time
synchronization.

Did somebody see some other formats for the time synchronization? There are
also transformation to double.


Hagen