From: "phluid61 (Matthew Kerwin)" <matthew@...>
Date: 2013-07-17T13:04:37+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:56061] [CommonRuby - Feature #8640] Add Time#elapsed to return nanoseconds since creation


Issue #8640 has been updated by phluid61 (Matthew Kerwin).


nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) wrote:
>  You propose the method not to take any arguments?
>  I had supposed that you'd wanted the keyward argument.

Since the discussion has moved towards defining two separate methods {#elapsed => (float)s and #elapsed_nanoseconds => (int)ns} I do prefer a keyword argument {in: :nanoseconds}.  Sorry for wavering back and forth on the issue so noisily.
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Feature #8640: Add Time#elapsed to return nanoseconds since creation
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8640#change-40549

Author: tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
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Target version: 


Hi,

We time many things in Rails (and so does lots of other code), and I've found that we spend lots of time allocating and subtracting time objects.  For example:

start = Time.now
##  do stuff we want to time
finish = Time.now - start

It would be nice if we could just create one time object and grab the nanoseconds elapsed since the time object was created like so:

start = Time.now
## do stuff we want to time
finished = start.elapsed # => nanoseconds elapsed.

I've attached a patch that implements this feature.


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