From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2013-07-27T08:48:14+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:56209] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #8658] Process.clock_gettime

2013/7/26 Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org>:
> 2013/7/26 KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>:
>
>> Really? I don't think so because CLOCK_*_CPUTIME_ID have less precious than
>> CLOCK_REALTIME. following "t" often show 0 on several OSs.
>>
>>
>> t0 = clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID)
>> # blah blah blah
>> t1 = clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID)
>> t = t1 - t0
>
> At least, my system can return 1ns unit.
> (It doesn't mean 1ns accuracy, of course.)
>
> In following result, 4666 and 4667 are returned.
>
> % ./ruby -ve '
> t1 = Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, :nanoseconds)
> while true
>   t2 = Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID, :nanoseconds)
>   p t2-t1
>   t1 = t2
> end
> '|head -20|sort -n

CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID can return 1ns unit too.

% ./ruby -ve '
t1 = Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, :nanoseconds)
while true
  t2 = Process.clock_gettime(Process::CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, :nanoseconds)
  p t2-t1
  t1 = t2
end
'|head -20|sort -n
ruby 2.1.0dev (2013-07-19 trunk 42049) [x86_64-linux]
2091
3913
3936
3939
3975
3976
3978
4281
4466
4473
4516
4563
4666
4706
-e:5:in `p'5604
6196
6342
13047
19388
: Broken pipe (Errno::EPIPE)
	from -e:5:in `<main>'

(3975 and 3976 is returned.)

CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID may be preferable than CLOCK_PROCESS_CPUTIME_ID for
measuring Bignum speed because it is purely single thread.
-- 
Tanaka Akira