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A crate to make time measurements that focuses on speed.
This crate is a partial replacement for the Time and Duration structures
from the standard library, with the following differences:
- Speed is privileged over accuracy. In particular,
CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSEis used to retrieve the clock value on Linux systems, and transformations avoid operations that can be slow on non-Intel systems. - The number of system calls can be kept to a minimum. The “most recent timestamp” is always kept in memory. It can be read with just a load operation, and can be updated only as frequently as necessary.
§Installation
coarsetime is available on crates.io and works on
Rust stable, beta, and nightly.
Windows and Unix-like systems are supported.
Structs§
- Clock
- System time
- Duration
- A duration type to represent an approximate span of time
- Instant
- A measurement of a monotonically increasing clock.
Opaque and useful only with
Duration. - Updater
- A service to periodically call
Instant::update()
Type Aliases§
- Unix
Time Stamp - Alias for
Duration.