Internal Time (original) (raw)

ANSI Common Lisp 25 Environment 25.1 The External Environment 25.1.4 Time

25.1.4.3 Internal Time

Internal time represents time as a single integer, in terms of an implementation-dependent unit called an internal time unit. Relative time is measured as a number of these units. Absolute time is relative to an arbitrary time base.

The next figure shows defined names related to internal time.

Defined names involving time in Internal Time.

get-internal-real-time internal-time-units-per-second
get-internal-run-time