Re: RE: High resolution timer function

On 2 January 2018 at 10:43, Anatol Belski <ab@php.net> wrote: > Hi, > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Anatol Belski [mailto:weltling@outlook.de] On Behalf Of Anatol > Belski > > Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2017 3:03 PM > > To: internals@lists.php.net > > Cc: Niklas Keller <me@kelunik.com> > > Subject: [PHP-DEV] High resolution timer function > > > > Hi, > > > > I would like to propose a function for high resolution monotonic timing. > There > > was discussions about this before and a PR > > https://github.com/php/php- > > src/pull/2368 which has issues and was abandoned. I've filed > > https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/2976 with some > > reworked > > implementation. > > > > A monotonic timer can be usable in several situations besides > benchmarking. > > Having a simple functionality like this in the core should be a useful > addition. The > > current approach is a function returning array of [seconds, nanoseconds] > and > > optionally returning full nanosecond number as int on 64-bit or float on > 32-bit. > > The first way is the most portable. Quite a few platforms are already > supported > > by the current implementation. > > > > IMHO it should be fine to have a function like this in the core, perhaps > also a few > > helper functions could be useful, too. I would like to pursue 7.3 with > this. Please > > lets check for any concerns in general or with implementation, naming, > etc. > > > If there are no further comments or objection, I would like to merge this > patch anytime soon and see to add a couple of helper functions for > diff/compare. > > Why is this bypassing the RFC process? > Regards > > Anatol > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >