[Ns-developers] Internal Time Keeping Question

[Hagen Paul Pfeifer]

* Mathieu Lacage | 2008-07-21 09:45:48 [-0700]:

>The HighPrecision/Time API is used to help users make time calculations,
>not to keep track of the simulation time. The simulation time is a 64
>bit counter while the HighPrecision time is a counter with a higher
>precision (to allow you to do multiplications, divisions, etc.)
>
>So, it all depends what you want to exchange. If you want to exchange
>user time across machines, you should use the value stored internally in
>the HighPrecision class (which means that you need access to all fields
>m_slowValue, m_fastValue, and m_isFast). If you want to exchange the
>simulation time, then, don't bother with all this: just exchange the
>internal 64 bit counter you get from Time.GetHighPrecision ().GetInteger
>().
>
>I suspect very much that you are in the latter case.

Right, the later one! It was not clear to that the fractional part was for
arithmethic only. Thank Mathieu!

Hagen