From 6487aac5977cf470bc6a2cd0964da2850ee38717 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rickard Green Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 23:57:01 +0100 Subject: 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. --- erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types') diff --git a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types b/erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types index 21434eb117..4cd4ad100c 100644 --- a/erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types +++ b/erts/emulator/beam/erl_alloc.types @@ -269,6 +269,7 @@ type BUSY_CALLER_TAB SHORT_LIVED SYSTEM busy_caller_table type BUSY_CALLER SHORT_LIVED SYSTEM busy_caller type PROC_SYS_TSK SHORT_LIVED PROCESSES proc_sys_task type PROC_SYS_TSK_QS SHORT_LIVED PROCESSES proc_sys_task_queues +type NEW_TIME_OFFSET SHORT_LIVED SYSTEM new_time_offset +if threads_no_smp # Need thread safe allocs, but std_alloc and fix_alloc are not; -- cgit v1.2.3