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Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author
2015-03-20	Introduce a new time API	Rickard Green
	The old time API is based on erlang:now/0. The major issue with erlang:now/0 is that it was intended to be used for so many unrelated things. This tied these unrelated operations together and unnecessarily caused performance, scalability as well as accuracy, and precision issues for operations that do not need to have such issues. The new API spreads different functionality over multiple functions in order to improve on this. The new API consists of a number of new BIFs: - erlang:convert_time_unit/3 - erlang:monotonic_time/0 - erlang:monotonic_time/1 - erlang:system_time/0 - erlang:system_time/1 - erlang:time_offset/0 - erlang:time_offset/1 - erlang:timestamp/0 - erlang:unique_integer/0 - erlang:unique_integer/1 - os:system_time/0 - os:system_time/1 and a number of extensions of existing BIFs: - erlang:monitor(time_offset, clock_service) - erlang:system_flag(time_offset, finalize) - erlang:system_info(os_monotonic_time_source) - erlang:system_info(time_offset) - erlang:system_info(time_warp_mode) - erlang:system_info(time_correction) - erlang:system_info(start_time) See the "Time and Time Correction in Erlang" chapter of the ERTS User's Guide for more information.
2011-09-29	Update copyright years	Björn-Egil Dahlberg

2011-08-15	erts: use a union to avoid strict aliasing issues	Tuncer Ayaz
	Use a union for pointer type conversion to avoid compiler warnings about strict-aliasing violations with gcc-4.1. gcc >= 4.2 does not emit the warning. TODO: Reconsider use of union once gcc-4.1 is obsolete?
2011-08-15	erts: adapt matrix_nif to R14 erl_nif API changes	Tuncer Ayaz

2011-05-20	Update copyright years	Björn-Egil Dahlberg

2011-03-25	erts: Fix doc typos, duplication and readability	Tuncer Ayaz

2010-02-17	OTP-8335 NIF improvements:	Sverker Eriksson
	Driver API for multi-threading made available for NIFs. Support for mempory managed (garbage collected) resource objects. A way to pass "pointers" to native data structures between C and Erlang in a safe way. Support for references, floats and term comparison. Various new functions, like enif_inspect_iolist_as_binary, enif_make_sub_binary, enif_get_string, enif_get_atom, enif_make_tuple_from_array, enif_make_list_from_array, enif_make_existing_atom.
2009-11-20	The R13B03 release.OTP_R13B03	Erlang/OTP