From: Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@...>
Date: 2013-08-16T14:13:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:56635] Re: [CommonRuby - Feature #8777][Open] Process.mach_absolute_time

On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 09:46:41PM +0900, Tanaka Akira wrote:
> 2013/8/11 tenderlovemaking (Aaron Patterson) <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org>:
> > Feature #8777: Process.mach_absolute_time
> > https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8777
> 
> > This is related to #8658.  `mach_absolute_time` will give us a monotonic clock on OS X.  I'm not sure if this fits in to `clock_gettime`, so I've added a new function for getting the absolute time and another function for converting the absolute time to nanoseconds.
> 
> I think that "I'm not sure if this fits in to `clock_gettime`" is
> too weak reason to introduce new methods.

Sorry, I'm asking for help.  I don't know *how* to fit it in with
`clock_gettime`.  Can you help me?

`mach_absolute_time` requires a conversion to obtain nanoseconds, but it
seems the other clocks do not.

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Aaron Patterson
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