Re: get time in ms?

[Enrico Colombini <erix@...>]

Cheng, Long wrote:
> The POSIX standard specifies os.clock() returning CPU time used. But 
> microsoft POSIX library os.clock() returns wall time elapsed since the 
> process started. You'd better avoid using it when your lua code is 
> supposed to run both on Windows and Linux. We learned this a hard way.
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4e2ess30%28VS.80%29.aspx

Thanks! Now at last I understand why I didn't understand :-) I always 
used os.clock() as wall-clock time (on Windows) and was quite suprised 
at discovering it was intended to measure CPU time.

What about the Mac? CPU time, I suppose, being Unix-based?

  Enrico