From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2014-08-23T21:44:06+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:64515] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #10165] [Open] Use Process.clock_gettime to speed up Benchmark.realtime.

I like this.  The speedup is from reduction of allocations+GC

I think you need to fall back to CLOCK_REALTIME on systems w/o
CLOCK_MONOTONIC, though.  Based on my reading of process.c,
CLOCK_REALTIME is always available.  So something like this:

	if defined?(Process::CLOCK_MONOTONIC)
	  BENCHMARK_CLOCK = Process::CLOCK_MONOTONIC
	else
	  # Ruby may use gettimeofday to emulate:
	  BENCHMARK_CLOCK = Process::CLOCK_REALTIME
	end

	def realtime # :yield:
	  r0 = Process.clock_gettime(BENCHMARK_CLOCK)
	  yield
	  Process.clock_gettime(BENCHMARK_CLOCK) - r0
	end