Starting a timer relative or absolute

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Hi,

I’m wondering if there is any performance loss (from the erts point of view) when one starts a timer using erlang:start_timer/4 (Erlang -- erlang) with relative time if compared to absolute time ? Or relative time is just a convenience ?

Thanks.

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No, there shouldn’t be any performance difference between absolute and relative timers.

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