Introduce a new time API

The old time API is based on erlang:now/0. The major issue with
erlang:now/0 is that it was intended to be used for so many
unrelated things. This tied these unrelated operations together
and unnecessarily caused performance, scalability as well as
accuracy, and precision issues for operations that do not need
to have such issues. The new API spreads different functionality
over multiple functions in order to improve on this.

The new API consists of a number of new BIFs:
- erlang:convert_time_unit/3
- erlang:monotonic_time/0
- erlang:monotonic_time/1
- erlang:system_time/0
- erlang:system_time/1
- erlang:time_offset/0
- erlang:time_offset/1
- erlang:timestamp/0
- erlang:unique_integer/0
- erlang:unique_integer/1
- os:system_time/0
- os:system_time/1

and a number of extensions of existing BIFs:
- erlang:monitor(time_offset, clock_service)
- erlang:system_flag(time_offset, finalize)
- erlang:system_info(os_monotonic_time_source)
- erlang:system_info(time_offset)
- erlang:system_info(time_warp_mode)
- erlang:system_info(time_correction)
- erlang:system_info(start_time)

See the "Time and Time Correction in Erlang" chapter of the
ERTS User's Guide for more information.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/erts/emulator/beam/global.h b/erts/emulator/beam/global.h
index 891046a8b5..e24aef3e3c 100644
--- a/erts/emulator/beam/global.h
+++ b/erts/emulator/beam/global.h
@@ -346,8 +346,6 @@ extern Uint display_items;	/* no of items to display in traces etc */
 extern int erts_backtrace_depth;
 extern erts_smp_atomic32_t erts_max_gen_gcs;
 
-extern int erts_disable_tolerant_timeofday;
-
 extern int bif_reductions;      /* reductions + fcalls (when doing call_bif) */
 extern int stackdump_on_exit;
 
@@ -622,9 +620,6 @@ erts_bld_port_info(Eterm **hpp,
 void erts_bif_info_init(void);
 
 /* bif.c */
-Eterm erts_make_ref(Process *);
-Eterm erts_make_ref_in_buffer(Eterm buffer[REF_THING_SIZE]);
-void erts_make_ref_in_array(Uint32 ref[ERTS_MAX_REF_NUMBERS]);
 
 ERTS_GLB_INLINE Eterm
 erts_proc_store_ref(Process *c_p, Uint32 ref[ERTS_MAX_REF_NUMBERS]);