net.openhft.chronicle.ticker

Interface Ticker

All Known Subinterfaces:

NativeTicker

All Known Implementing Classes:

CpuidRdtscTicker, MicroTicker, MilliTicker, NanoTicker, RdtscpTicker, RdtscTicker, SetTicker

public interface Ticker

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
long	count()
long	countFromEpoch() The number of ticks to add to get epoch time, or an approximation of wall time.
long	countPerSecond()
static SetTicker	forTesting()
static Ticker	highResolution()
static Ticker	micro()
static Ticker	milli()
static Ticker	nano()
static long	nanoClock() The current wall-clock nanoseconds since epoch - named analogously to System.nanoTime()

Method Detail

count

long count()

Returns:

the number of ticks

countPerSecond

long countPerSecond()

Returns:

the number of ticks in a second.

countFromEpoch

long countFromEpoch()

The number of ticks to add to get epoch time, or an approximation of wall time.

Returns:

the number ticks offset from epoch

nanoClock

static long nanoClock()

The current wall-clock nanoseconds since epoch - named analogously to System.nanoTime()

Returns:

the number of nanos since the epoch

forTesting

static SetTicker forTesting()

milli

static Ticker milli()

micro

static Ticker micro()

nano

static Ticker nano()

highResolution

static Ticker highResolution()