[Rcpp-devel] Rcpp Timer

[Romain Francois]

It made more sense to track times since an origin, esp when you might use several timers in case you use multiple threads. 


> Le 30 déc. 2016 à 13:37, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> a écrit :
> 
> 
> On 29 December 2016 at 11:25, Jonathan Christensen wrote:
> | Hi Kaspar and Dirk,
> | 
> | It is indeed cumulative. Previously (presumably when that gallery page was
> | written) it was not cumulative, but Romain Francois changed the behavior of the
> | step() function several years ago, in this commit: https://github.com/RcppCore/
> | Rcpp/commit/e295b2b178de55291e63705966368404bb0ce5e1.
> 
> Nice catch.
> 
> | There is no indication or reasoning about changing the behavior, so it may be
> | that making it cumulative was unintentional.
> 
> Let's presume it was intentional to the author of the change -- but as you
> rightly point out, it did of course change and reverse previous behaviour.
> 
> We could easily add a toggle to the constructor to get an either/or behaviour.
> 
> Dirk
> 
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