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Standard C Library Functions gethrtime(3C)

NAME

gethrtime, gethrvtime - get high resolution time

SYNOPSIS

#include

hrtime_t gethrtime(void);

hrtime_t gethrvtime(void);

DESCRIPTION

The gethrtime() function returns the current high-resolution real time. Time is expressed as

nanoseconds since some arbitrary time in the past; it is not correlated in any way to the time

of day, and thus is not subject to resetting or drifting by way of adjtime(2) or settimeofday(3C).

The hires timer is ideally suited to performance measurement tasks, where cheap, accurate

interval timing is required.

The gethrvtime() function returns the current high-resolution LWP virtual time, expressed

as total nanoseconds of execution time. This function requires that micro state accounting be

enabled with the ptime utility (see proc(1)).

The gethrtime() and gethrvtime() functions both return an hrtime_t, which is a 64-bit (long long)

signed integer.

EXAMPLES

The following code fragment measures the average cost of getpid(2):

hrtime_t start, end;

int i, iters = 100;

start = gethrtime();

for (i = 0; i < iters; i++)

getpid();

end = gethrtime();

printf("Avg getpid() time = %lld nsec\n", (end - start) / iters);

ATTRIBUTES

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

____________________________________________________________

| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |

|_____________________________|_____________________________|

| MT-Level | MT-Safe |

|_____________________________|_____________________________|

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Standard C Library Functions gethrtime(3C)

SEE ALSO

proc(1), adjtime(2), gettimeofday(3C), settimeofday(3C), attributes(5)

NOTES

Although the units of hi-res time are always the same (nanoseconds), the actual resolution is

hardware dependent. Hi-res time is guaranteed to be monotonic (it won't go backward, it won't periodically

wrap) and linear (it won't occasionally speed up or slow down for adjustment, like the time of day can), but not necessarily unique: two sufficiently proximate calls may return the same value.

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