1gethrtime(3C)            Standard C Library Functions            gethrtime(3C)
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NAME

6       gethrtime, gethrvtime - get high resolution time
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SYNOPSIS

9       #include <sys/time.h>
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11       hrtime_t gethrtime(void);
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14       hrtime_t gethrvtime(void);
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DESCRIPTION

18       The gethrtime() function returns the current high-resolution real time.
19       Time is expressed as nanoseconds since some arbitrary time in the past;
20       it  is  not  correlated  in any way to the time of day, and thus is not
21       subject to resetting or drifting by way  of  adjtime(2)  or  settimeof‐
22       day(3C).  The hi-res timer is ideally suited to performance measurement
23       tasks, where cheap, accurate interval timing is required.
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26       The gethrvtime() function returns the current high-resolution LWP  vir‐
27       tual time, expressed as total nanoseconds of execution time.
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30       The  gethrtime()  and  gethrvtime()  functions both return an hrtime_t,
31       which is a 64-bit (long long) signed integer.
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EXAMPLES

34       The following code fragment measures the average cost of getpid(2):
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41                 getpid();
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44         printf("Avg getpid() time = %lld nsec\n", (end − start) / iters);
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ATTRIBUTES

48       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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53       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
54       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         │      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        │
55       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
56       │MT-Level                     │MT-Safe                      │
57       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
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SEE ALSO

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

63       Although the units of hi-res time are always  the  same  (nanoseconds),
64       the actual resolution is hardware dependent.  Hi-res time is guaranteed
65       to be monotonic (it won't go backward, it won't periodically wrap)  and
66       linear  (it  won't  occasionally  speed up or slow down for adjustment,
67       like the time of day can), but not necessarily unique: two sufficiently
68       proximate calls may return the same value.
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