clocksource - high performance clocks for Rust

Clocksource allows access to alternate clocksources like the TSC on your Intel x86 CPU. Most modern processors support 'constant_tsc' allowing us to use this counter as a high resolution clock. The cost of reading this counter can be much lower than calls to 'clock_gettime()' - especially on virtualized environments.

Unfortunately, this requires we use nightly rust until the asm!() macro is stabilized. We provide fallback for users on stable rust, this should allow zero-cost abstraction of clock_gettime() for stable builds without benefit of the high-performance timing.

The API documentation of this library can be found at docs.rs/clocksource.

Getting clocksource

add clocksource to your dependencies and start using it

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.