Re: Fwd: Monotonic Time

2017-01-13 15:06 GMT+01:00 Leigh <leight@gmail.com>: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 at 09:35 Niklas Keller <me@kelunik.com> wrote: > > > Hi Anatol, > > > > Do you think we should merge hrtime into core or add a simple function > just > > like microtime() to ext/standard? > > > > Regards, Niklas > > > > It would be great if it could be a simple function, however it is going to > be difficult to produce something cross-platform and meaningful with a > single function. (I know Anatol has written portable code, I haven't looked > at it but I assume it's wrapping the various structs used by i.e. > performance counters, hrtime, etc.) > > I don't think we can get away from having an object-based implementation to > wrap those internal structs, but I do think this is a useful addition > regardless of how it's presented. > With timer.c it's very easy to have it as one function, in fact it's a simple static method currently doing exactly what I think it should probably do in core as a function. http://svn.php.net/viewvc/pecl/hrtime/trunk/hrtime.c?revision=341600&view=markup < Line 416. Any name suggestions? Regards, Niklas