Method gethrvtime()

Method gethrvtime

int gethrvtime(void|int nsec)

Description

Return the CPU time that has been consumed by this process or thread. -1 is returned if the system couldn't determine it. The time is normally returned in microseconds, but if the optional argument nsec is nonzero it's returned in nanoseconds.

The CPU time includes both user and system time, i.e. it's approximately the same thing you would get by adding together the "utime" and "stime" fields returned by System.getrusage (but perhaps with better accuracy).

It's however system dependent whether or not it's the time consumed in all threads or in the current one only; System.CPU_TIME_IS_THREAD_LOCAL tells which. If both types are available then thread local time is preferred.

Note

The actual accuracy on many systems is significantly less than microseconds or nanoseconds. See System.CPU_TIME_RESOLUTION.

Note

The garbage collector might run automatically at any time. The time it takes is not included in the figure returned by this function, so that normal measurements aren't randomly clobbered by it. Explicit calls to gc are still included, though.

Note

The special function gauge is implemented with this function.