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Pony Standard Library

primitive Time

Time¶

A collection of ways to fetch the current time.

primitive val Time

Constructors¶

create¶

new val create()
: Time val^

Returns¶

Time val^

Public Functions¶

now¶

The wall-clock adjusted system time with nanoseconds. Return: (seconds, nanoseconds)

fun box now()
: (I64 val , I64 val)

Returns¶

(I64 val , I64 val)

seconds¶

The wall-clock adjusted system time.

fun box seconds()
: I64 val

Returns¶

I64 val

millis¶

Monotonic unadjusted milliseconds.

fun box millis()
: U64 val

Returns¶

U64 val

micros¶

Monotonic unadjusted microseconds.

fun box micros()
: U64 val

Returns¶

U64 val

nanos¶

Monotonic unadjusted nanoseconds.

fun box nanos()
: U64 val

Returns¶

U64 val

cycles¶

Processor cycle count. Don't use this for performance timing, as it does not control for out-of-order execution.

fun box cycles()
: U64 val

Returns¶

U64 val

perf_begin¶

Get a cycle count for beginning a performance testing block. This will will prevent instructions from before this call leaking into the block and instructions after this call being executed earlier.

fun box perf_begin()
: U64 val

Returns¶

U64 val

perf_end¶

Get a cycle count for ending a performance testing block. This will will prevent instructions from after this call leaking into the block and instructions before this call being executed later.

fun box perf_end()
: U64 val

Returns¶

U64 val

eq¶

fun box eq(
  that: Time val)
: Bool val

Parameters¶

that: Time val

Returns¶

Bool val

ne¶

fun box ne(
  that: Time val)
: Bool val

Parameters¶

that: Time val

Returns¶

Bool val