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authorMatthew Pickering <matthewtpickering@gmail.com>2019-05-29 17:15:48 +0100
committerMarge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org>2019-05-31 01:56:16 -0400
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Eventlog: Document the fact timestamps are nanoseconds
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@@ -1095,6 +1095,10 @@ When the program is linked with the :ghc-flag:`-eventlog` option
`ghc-events <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ghc-events>`__
package.
+ Each event is associated with a timestamp which is the number of
+ nanoseconds since the start of executation of the running program.
+ This is the elapsed time, not the CPU time.
+
.. rts-flag:: -ol ⟨filename⟩
:default: :file:`<program>.eventlog`