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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.

Figure 25-7 shows defined names related to internal time.

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


  Figure 25--7: Defined names involving time in Internal Time.