[issue11457] Expose nanosecond precision from system calls

[Larry Hastings]

Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> added the comment:

s/pair-of-floats/pair-of-ints/

Also, to be clear: yocto is the smallest defined SI prefix.  And what I meant when I referred to 10**-3 was, float128 could handle 10**-24 but not 10**-27.  According to my back-of-the-envelope calculations, float128 could accurately represent timestamps with yoctosecond resolution for another 650 years to come.

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