The simple-timers Module#
Common Dylan provides a simple facility for timers to track intervals of time via the simple-timers module.
Timers offer microsecond resolution on all supported platforms. Timers attempt to be monotonic where that capability is supported by the operating system.
- <profiling-timer> Class#
The timer class.
- Superclasses:
- Discussion:
The timer class. Timers start out stopped and must be started with
timer-start.
- timer-start Generic function#
Starts a timer.
- Signature:
timer-start timer => ()
- Parameters:
timer – An instance of
<profiling-timer>.
- See also:
- timer-stop Generic function#
Stops a timer and returns the elapsed time.
- Signature:
timer-stop timer => (seconds, microseconds)
- Parameters:
timer – An instance of
<profiling-timer>.
- Values:
- See also:
- timer-accumulated-time Generic function#
Returns the time since the timer was started.
- Signature:
timer-accumulated-time timer => (seconds, microseconds)
- Parameters:
timer – An instance of
<profiling-timer>.
- Values:
- timer-running? Generic function#
Returns true if the timer is running.
- Signature:
timer-running? timer => (running?)
- Parameters:
timer – An instance of
<profiling-timer>.
- Values:
running? – An instance of
<boolean>.